Ignore Extended Attributes which have Unicode characters outside the current

system representation.


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup@917 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109

trunk/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG

 New in v1.1.18 (????/??/??)
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+Ignore Extended Attributes which have Unicode characters outside the current
+system representation. These will be correctly handled when rdiff-backup
+switches to Python 3, which will have full Unicode support. (Andrew Ferguson)
 
 
 New in v1.1.17 (2008/07/17)

trunk/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/eas_acls.py

@@ -150,7 +150,11 @@ def EA2Record(ea):
 		if not val: str_list.append(name)
 		else:
 			encoded_val = base64.encodestring(val).replace('\n', '')
-			str_list.append('%s=0s%s' % (C.acl_quote(name), encoded_val))
+			try:
+				str_list.append('%s=0s%s' % (C.acl_quote(name), encoded_val))
+			except UnicodeEncodeError:
+				log.Log("Warning: unable to store Unicode extended attribute %s"
+							% repr(name), 3)
 	return '\n'.join(str_list)+'\n'
 
 def Record2EA(record):