Merge pull request #49 from minus7/patch-1

Robustness towards UTF-8 decoding errors
altdesktop · Oct 14, 2016 · a00f988 · a00f988
2 parents e0cb3e3 + 2bc145d
commit a00f988
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diff --git a/i3ipc/i3ipc.py b/i3ipc/i3ipc.py
@@ -206,7 +206,8 @@ def _unpack(self, data):
         msg_magic, msg_length, msg_type = self._unpack_header(data)
         msg_size = self._struct_header_size + msg_length
         # XXX: Message shouldn't be any longer than the data
-        return data[self._struct_header_size:msg_size].decode('utf-8')
+        payload = data[self._struct_header_size:msg_size]
+        return payload.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
 
     def _unpack_header(self, data):
         """