From 77d6008254c6ef87f8189294cbaa6ce332e6ab77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Hewgill <greg@hewgill.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:45:01 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] automatically fall back to Latin-1 for old entries that
 aren't UTF-8

---
 ChangeLog | 1 +
 ljdump.py | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bc062fd..ba273d0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ ChangeLog - ljdump
 Version 1.3.3 - 2009-01-10
 
 - Feature: ljdump now prompts for login info if ljdump.config does not exist
+- Bugfix: Automatically handle UnicodeDecodeError for old entries
 
 Version 1.3.2 - 2009-01-09
 
diff --git a/ljdump.py b/ljdump.py
index a6d7db3..6a7e3a2 100755
--- a/ljdump.py
+++ b/ljdump.py
@@ -74,7 +74,11 @@ def dumpelement(f, name, e):
         if isinstance(e[k], {}.__class__):
             dumpelement(f, k, e[k])
         else:
-            s = unicode(str(e[k]), "UTF-8")
+            try:
+                s = unicode(str(e[k]), "UTF-8")
+            except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                # fall back to Latin-1 for old entries that aren't UTF-8
+                s = unicode(str(e[k]), "cp1252")
             f.write("<%s>%s</%s>\n" % (k, saxutils.escape(s), k))
     f.write("</%s>\n" % name)
 
-- 
2.39.5