From 1de634ffa1598162a2aba152d97f780638c0feac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:13:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Make the reporting functions a bit more robust

Sometimes, non-ASCII characters might appear in message strings,
causing a UTF-8 decoding error. Catch it, so the remainder can
proceed.
---
 src/swigtest.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/swigtest.py b/src/swigtest.py
index 27bcdd75..ddf0f442 100644
--- a/src/swigtest.py
+++ b/src/swigtest.py
@@ -177,10 +177,14 @@ def msg_callback(target: str, lno: int, fname: str, func: str,
         elif (msgmode & ad.MSG2_INDENT2) != 0:
             s = (len(ad.cvar.progname) + 2) * ' '
         s += msg
-        print(s, end='')
+        try:
+            print(s, end='')
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            print("message contained invalid characters")
 
 # very simplified progress callback
 global prog_hdr
+prog_hdr = ""
 def progress_callback(percent: int, etime: float, hdr: str, finish: int):
     if hdr:
         global prog_hdr