when passing a broken utf-8 string, ignore characters. fixes #55.

[enigma2.git] / lib / python / Components / config.py

diff --git a/lib/python/Components/config.py b/lib/python/Components/config.py
index 4ddcabec3dfd3421a7d10d508d7b042c0d066c01..4d57bbb9a1edf6966d6ffc582fd4bb5db7945293 100755 (executable)
--- a/lib/python/Components/config.py
+++ b/lib/python/Components/config.py
@@ -782,12 +782,12 @@ class ConfigText(ConfigElement, NumericalTextInput):
 
        def getValue(self):
                return self.text.encode("utf-8")
-               
+
        def setValue(self, val):
                try:
                        self.text = val.decode("utf-8")
                except UnicodeDecodeError:
-                       self.text = val
+                       self.text = val.decode("utf-8", "ignore")
                        print "Broken UTF8!"
 
        value = property(getValue, setValue)