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Werk #13115: Fix UnicodeDecodeError on fallback notifications

Component Notifications
Title Fix UnicodeDecodeError on fallback notifications
Date Sep 1, 2021
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.1.0b1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT
2.0.0p10 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

If locales with non UTF-8 characters were used, fallback notifications could fail with an error like "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 1079: invalid continuation byte". This was seen on RHEL based systems.

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