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 Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.0.0p10	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

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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