Werk #2896: Improved handling of wrong encoded input strings

Component

User interface

Title

Improved handling of wrong encoded input strings

Date

Dec 18, 2015

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

1.2.7i4	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.2.8b1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

When a user submitted non UTF-8 encoded strings, for example latin-1 encoded ones, where we expect to get a UTF-8 encoded string, this resulted in a cryptic exception. This has been fixed now by raising an understandable error message in most places.

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