X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/d69225772ad1ff3952a3ee74055dc93f85c13812..908f8fc481c0503bf8be5002e5d5208666da7649:/wxPython/samples/ide/activegrid/tool/process.py

diff --git a/wxPython/samples/ide/activegrid/tool/process.py b/wxPython/samples/ide/activegrid/tool/process.py
index 691c139699..1de68e1bc9 100644
--- a/wxPython/samples/ide/activegrid/tool/process.py
+++ b/wxPython/samples/ide/activegrid/tool/process.py
@@ -407,7 +407,13 @@ _SaferCreateProcess(appName=%r,
                 elif env:
                     uenv = {}
                     for key, val in env.items():
-                        uenv[unicode(key)] = unicode(val)
+                        try:
+                            uenv[unicode(key)] = unicode(val)   # default encoding
+                        except UnicodeError:
+                            try:
+                                uenv[unicode(key, 'iso-8859-1')] = unicode(val, 'iso-8859-1')   # backup encoding
+                            except UnicodeError:
+                                log.warn('Skipping environment variable "%s" in execution process: unable to convert to unicode using either the default encoding or ISO-8859-1' % (key))
                     env = uenv
                 hProcess, hThread, processId, threadId\
                     = win32process.CreateProcess(appName, cmd, processSA,
@@ -1924,7 +1930,7 @@ class IOBuffer:
 
         self.__buf = ''
         # A state change is defined as the buffer being closed or a
-        # write occurring.
+        # write occuring.
         if mutex is not None:
             self._mutex = mutex
         else: