Merge pull request #1 from gitzjm/gitzjm-patch-2

Update utils.py
gitzjm · Oct 5, 2018 · 69866e1 · 69866e1
2 parents f923840 + d46e5fa
commit 69866e1
Showing 1 changed file with 11 additions and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/PyPDF2/utils.py b/PyPDF2/utils.py
@@ -235,10 +235,17 @@ def b_(s):
  if type(s) == bytes:
  return s
  else:
- r = s.encode('latin-1')
- if len(s) < 2:
- bc[s] = r
- return r
+ try:
+ r = s.encode('latin-1')
+ if len(s) < 2:
+ bc[s] = r
+ return r
+ except Exception as e:
+ print(s)
+ r = s.encode('utf-8')
+ if len(s) < 2:
+ bc[s] = r
+ return r
 
 
 def u_(s):