Always replace/upgrade broken utf8 Re #3952

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dgtlmoon
2026-03-05 10:59:06 +01:00
parent 1e12ae404f
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@@ -260,6 +260,14 @@ class difference_detection_processor():
# @todo .quit here could go on close object, so we can run JS if change-detected
await self.fetcher.quit(watch=self.watch)
# Sanitize lone surrogates - these can appear when servers return malformed/mixed-encoding
# content that gets decoded into surrogate characters (e.g. \udcad). Without this,
# encode('utf-8') raises UnicodeEncodeError downstream in checksums, diffs, file writes, etc.
# Covers all fetchers (requests, playwright, puppeteer, selenium) in one place.
# See: https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/issues/3952
if self.fetcher.content and isinstance(self.fetcher.content, str):
self.fetcher.content = self.fetcher.content.encode('utf-8', errors='replace').decode('utf-8')
# After init, call run_changedetection() which will do the actual change-detection
def get_extra_watch_config(self, filename):
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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# coding=utf-8
import hashlib
import time
from flask import url_for
from .util import live_server_setup, wait_for_all_checks, extract_UUID_from_client
@@ -11,6 +12,27 @@ import os
def test_surrogate_characters_in_content_are_sanitized():
"""Lone surrogates can appear in requests' r.text when a server returns malformed/mixed-encoding
content. Without sanitization, encoding to UTF-8 raises UnicodeEncodeError.
See: https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/issues/3952
"""
content_with_surrogate = '<html><body>Hello \udcad World</body></html>'
# Confirm the raw problem exists
with pytest.raises(UnicodeEncodeError):
content_with_surrogate.encode('utf-8')
# Our fix: sanitize after fetcher.run() in processors/base.py call_browser()
sanitized = content_with_surrogate.encode('utf-8', errors='replace').decode('utf-8')
assert 'Hello' in sanitized
assert 'World' in sanitized
assert '\udcad' not in sanitized
# Checksum computation (processors/base.py get_raw_document_checksum) must not crash
hashlib.md5(sanitized.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
def set_html_response(datastore_path):
test_return_data = """
<html><body><span class="nav_second_img_text">