From 4d6f6fb0385da4bba9b069deda16be95b0e9c51c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chrys <chrys@linux-a11y.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 21:09:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] try fixing broken VCSU

---
 src/fenrirscreenreader/screenDriver/vcsaDriver.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/fenrirscreenreader/screenDriver/vcsaDriver.py b/src/fenrirscreenreader/screenDriver/vcsaDriver.py
index db8ba792..656f0655 100644
--- a/src/fenrirscreenreader/screenDriver/vcsaDriver.py
+++ b/src/fenrirscreenreader/screenDriver/vcsaDriver.py
@@ -217,7 +217,11 @@ class driver(screenDriver):
           self.autoDecodeVCSA(vcsaContent[4:], eventData['lines'], eventData['columns'])
         # VCSU seems to give b'   ' instead of b'\x00\x00\x00' (tsp), deactivated until its fixed
         if vcsuContent != None:
-            eventData['text'] = screen_utils.insertNewlines(vcsuContent.decode('UTF-32', 'replace'), eventData['columns'])
+            try:
+                vcsuContentAsText = vcsuContent.decode('UTF-32')
+                eventData['text'] = screen_utils.insertNewlines(vcsuContentAsText, eventData['columns'])
+            except:
+                pass
         return eventData.copy()
     def updateCharMap(self, screen):
         self.charmap = {}