From 78024eafe0d2daf3debd80a888b9ba463de85067 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:31:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] little precaution

---
 lib/core/common.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/core/common.py b/lib/core/common.py
index 05b53119f..24bb4f37a 100644
--- a/lib/core/common.py
+++ b/lib/core/common.py
@@ -1343,6 +1343,11 @@ def getFileItems(filename, commentPrefix='#', unicode_=True):
             if line.find(commentPrefix) != -1:
                 line = line[:line.find(commentPrefix)]
         line = line.strip()
+        if not unicode_:
+            try:
+                str.encode(line)
+            except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                continue
         if line:
             retVal.append(line)