From 4f86304437b9d95f52b9a2b13624f70da17d07c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jonas=20Borgstr=C3=B6m?= <jonas@borgstrom.se>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:21:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Handle unprintable characters when printing to stdout and
 stderr.

---
 darc/archiver.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/darc/archiver.py b/darc/archiver.py
index 5e1f0d6eb..38fa870fd 100644
--- a/darc/archiver.py
+++ b/darc/archiver.py
@@ -22,12 +22,16 @@ class Archiver(object):
 
     def print_error(self, msg, *args):
         msg = args and msg % args or msg
+        if hasattr(sys.stderr, 'encoding'):
+            msg = msg.encode(sys.stderr.encoding, 'ignore')
         self.exit_code = 1
         print >> sys.stderr, msg
 
     def print_verbose(self, msg, *args, **kw):
         if self.verbose:
             msg = args and msg % args or msg
+            if hasattr(sys.stdout, 'encoding'):
+                msg = msg.encode(sys.stdout.encoding, 'ignore')
             if kw.get('newline', True):
                 print msg
             else: