IRC client should not crash on failed decoding.

[jaraco]

IRC client should not crash on failed decoding.

[jaraco]

line 80 of buffer.py should be
errors = 'replace'

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Original comment by: Tim L

[jaraco]

This IRC library takes the (somewhat progressive) approach of assuming UTF-8 for all input, but also provides a straightforward mechanism for clients to customize the decoding behavior. See the section Decoding Input in the Overview. The last example gives a one-line example for the supported mechanism for disabling strict decoding. If you add that to your client startup code, you'll have the behavior you seek.

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Original comment by: Jason R. Coombs

[jaraco]

Nice to see this is already addressed in the documentation but it's a rather non-sane default for the library to crash with common input. would you consider wrapping the decode in a try and printing a warning that some input was omitted due to the strict utf8 setting?

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Original comment by: Tim L

[jaraco]

Good idea.

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Original comment by: Jason R. Coombs

[jaraco]

#!python

irc.client.ServerConnection.buffer_class.errors = 'ignore'

This fixes it and lets connects much faster.

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Original comment by: Yamaii

[jaraco]

Updated changelog and readme reflecting new LenientDecodingLineBuffer. Fixes #34.

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Original comment by: Jason R. Coombs