From 94b138f73ff3be72e78a1d745d84d1fda359099d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Vernon <matthewv@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 14:29:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] gracefully fail on non-ASCII tweets

---
 commands.py | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/commands.py b/commands.py
index 32ac05e..0f958e2 100644
--- a/commands.py
+++ b/commands.py
@@ -398,10 +398,10 @@ def twitterq(bot,cmd,nick,conn,public,twitapi):
   urlstring = urlre.search(cmd).group(1)
   if (urlstring.find("twitter.com") !=-1):
     stringout = getTweet(urlstring,twitapi)
-    if public:
-      conn.action(bot.channel,stringout)
-    else:
-      bot.automsg(public, nick, stringout)
+    try:
+        bot.automsg(public, nick, stringout)
+    except UnicodeEncodeError:
+        bot.automsg(public, nick, "Sorry, that tweet contained non-ASCII characters")
   
 def getTweet(urlstring,twitapi):
   parts = string.split(urlstring,'/')
-- 
2.30.2