From bdfb9c60ccc21df278b4ee450e50d7627b367186 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Pezley <christopher.pezley@rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 21:01:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix issue where opening a file whose name contains characters
 not present in locale would cause a crash.

Fixes qutebrowser/qutebrowser/1450
---
 qutebrowser/utils/urlutils.py | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qutebrowser/utils/urlutils.py b/qutebrowser/utils/urlutils.py
index 709d7d732..dff1ef8f1 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/utils/urlutils.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/utils/urlutils.py
@@ -372,8 +372,14 @@ def get_path_if_valid(pathstr, cwd=None, relative=False, check_exists=False):
         path = None
 
     if check_exists:
-        if path is not None and os.path.exists(path):
-            log.url.debug("URL is a local file")
+        if path is not None:
+            # If the path contains characters that the locale cannot handle,
+            # then we consider it as non-existent.
+            try:
+                if os.path.exists(path):
+                    log.url.debug("URL is a local file")
+            except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                path = None
         else:
             path = None