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| -rw-r--r-- | layman/utils.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/layman/utils.py b/layman/utils.py index eedc5d7..6f144be 100644 --- a/layman/utils.py +++ b/layman/utils.py @@ -64,7 +64,16 @@ def get_encoding(output): and output.encoding != None: return output.encoding else: - return locale.getpreferredencoding() + encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() + # Make sure that python knows the encoding. Bug 350156 + try: + # We don't care about what is returned, we just want to + # verify that we can find a codec. + codecs.lookup(encoding) + except LookupError: + # Python does not know the encoding, so use utf-8. + encoding = 'utf_8' + return encoding def pad(string, length): |