From 1c5556334dc6fde832db9c8fe232efe117e2381e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ridiculousfish <corydoras@ridiculousfish.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:05:37 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Try to fix UnicodeDecodeError in
 create_manpage_completions.py
 https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/658

---
 share/tools/create_manpage_completions.py | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/share/tools/create_manpage_completions.py b/share/tools/create_manpage_completions.py
index 4548dd1d2..d861886a0 100755
--- a/share/tools/create_manpage_completions.py
+++ b/share/tools/create_manpage_completions.py
@@ -93,13 +93,28 @@ def fish_escape_single_quote(str):
     str = str.replace("'", "\\'") # Replace one single quote with a backslash-single-quote
     return "'" + str + "'"
 
+# Make a string Unicode by attempting to decode it as latin-1, or UTF8. See #658
+def lossy_unicode(s):
+    # All strings are unicode in Python 3
+    if IS_PY3 or isinstance(s, unicode): return s
+    try:
+        return s.decode('latin-1')
+    except UnicodeEncodeError:
+        pass
+    try:
+        return s.decode('utf-8')
+    except UnicodeEncodeError:
+        pass
+    return s.decode('latin-1', 'ignore')
+    
+
 def output_complete_command(cmdname, args, description, output_list):
     comps = ['complete -c', cmdname]
     comps.extend(args)
     if description:
         comps.append('--description')
         comps.append(description)
-    output_list.append(' '.join(comps))
+    output_list.append(lossy_unicode(' ').join([lossy_unicode(c) for c in comps]))
 
 def built_command(options, description):
 #    print "Options are: ", options