Werk #5584: Fixed exception when "Export List of Software packages as CSV file" is enabled

Component	HW/SW inventory
Title	Fixed exception when "Export List of Software packages as CSV file" is enabled
Date	Dec 19, 2017
Level	Trivial Change
Class	Bug Fix
Compatibility	Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions	1.5.0i2 Not yet released Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME) 1.5.0i2 Not yet released Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME) 1.5.0i2 Not yet released Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME) 1.5.0i2 Not yet released Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME) 1.5.0i2 Not yet released Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME) 1.5.0i2 Not yet released Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME) 1.5.0i2 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME) 1.4.0p23 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

When having the export of the software packages list via CSV enabled while execution of the HW/SW inventory, an exception could happen in case the inventory data contained special characters. The exception looked like this on the command line:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/omd/sites/stable/share/check_mk/modules/check_mk.py", line 4811, in <module>
    do_inv(hostnames)
  File "/omd/sites/stable/share/check_mk/modules/inventory.py", line 180, in do_inv
    do_inv_for(hostname)
  File "/omd/sites/stable/share/check_mk/modules/inventory.py", line 267, in do_inv_for
    run_inv_export_hooks(hostname, g_inv_tree)
  File "/omd/sites/stable/share/check_mk/modules/inventory.py", line 383, in run_inv_export_hooks
    inv_export[hookname]["export_function"](hostname, params, tree)
  File "/omd/sites/stable/share/check_mk/inventory/export_software_csv", line 67, in inv_export_software_csv
    out.write("%s\n" % separator.join(line))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

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