Handle unicode in pads

etherpump/commands/pull.py

@@ -348,7 +348,14 @@ async def handle_pad(args, padid, data, info, session):
             ver["path"] = p + raw_ext
             ver["url"] = quote(ver["path"])
             async with await trio.open_file(ver["path"], "w") as f:
-                await f.write(text)
+                try:
+                    # Note(decentral1se): unicode handling...
+                    safe_text = text.encode("utf-8", "replace").decode()
+                    await f.write(safe_text)
+                except Exception as exception:
+                    print(path)
+                    print("PANIC: {}".format(exception))
+
             # once the content is settled, compute a hash
             # and link it in the metadata!