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-rw-r--r--client/changes/bug_4417_default-encoding-to-utf81
-rw-r--r--client/src/leap/soledad/client/__init__.py5
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/client/changes/bug_4417_default-encoding-to-utf8 b/client/changes/bug_4417_default-encoding-to-utf8
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6801b766
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/changes/bug_4417_default-encoding-to-utf8
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ o Defaults detected encoding to utf-8 to avoid bug if detected encoding is None. Closes: #4417
diff --git a/client/src/leap/soledad/client/__init__.py b/client/src/leap/soledad/client/__init__.py
index 534040ef..a159d773 100644
--- a/client/src/leap/soledad/client/__init__.py
+++ b/client/src/leap/soledad/client/__init__.py
@@ -847,8 +847,9 @@ class Soledad(object):
elif isinstance(content, str):
try:
result = chardet.detect(content)
- content = content.decode(result["encoding"]).encode("utf-8")\
- .decode("utf-8")
+ default = "utf-8"
+ encoding = result["encoding"] or default
+ content = content.decode(encoding)
except UnicodeError:
pass
return content