fix: Help pymagic with poorly encoded filenames

nicfit · Nov 5, 2017 · 7ffef22 · 7ffef22
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commit 7ffef22
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diff --git a/src/eyed3/utils/__init__.py b/src/eyed3/utils/__init__.py
@@ -43,7 +43,11 @@ def __init__(self):
     def guess_type(self, filename):
         if os.path.splitext(filename)[1] in ID3_MIME_TYPE_EXTENSIONS:
             return ID3_MIME_TYPE
-        return self.from_file(filename)
+        try:
+            return self.from_file(filename)
+        except UnicodeEncodeError as enc_err:
+            # https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic/pull/144
+            return self.from_file(filename.encode("utf-8", 'surrogateescape'))
 
 
 _mime_types = MagicTypes()