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-rw-r--r-- | pym/portage/__init__.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pym/portage/__init__.py b/pym/portage/__init__.py index 276f8852d..af908f041 100644 --- a/pym/portage/__init__.py +++ b/pym/portage/__init__.py @@ -3197,8 +3197,15 @@ class config(object): "set a value; will be thrown away at reset() time" if not isinstance(myvalue, basestring): raise ValueError("Invalid type being used as a value: '%s': '%s'" % (str(mykey),str(myvalue))) + + # Avoid potential UnicodeDecodeError exceptions later. + if not isinstance(mykey, unicode): + mykey = unicode(mykey, encoding='utf_8', errors='replace') + if not isinstance(myvalue, unicode): + myvalue = unicode(myvalue, encoding='utf_8', errors='replace') + self.modifying() - self.modifiedkeys += [mykey] + self.modifiedkeys.append(mykey) self.configdict["env"][mykey]=myvalue def environ(self): |