More test repairs.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cloudinit/user_data.py b/cloudinit/user_data.py
index 9111bd39..ff21259c 100644
--- a/cloudinit/user_data.py
+++ b/cloudinit/user_data.py
@@ -109,6 +109,15 @@ class UserDataProcessor(object):
             ctype = None
             ctype_orig = part.get_content_type()
             payload = part.get_payload(decode=True)
+            # In Python 3, decoding the payload will ironically hand us a
+            # bytes object.  'decode' means to decode according to
+            # Content-Transfer-Encoding, not according to any charset in the
+            # Content-Type.  So, if we end up with bytes, first try to decode
+            # to str via CT charset, and failing that, try utf-8 using
+            # surrogate escapes.
+            if six.PY3 and isinstance(payload, bytes):
+                charset = part.get_charset() or 'utf-8'
+                payload = payload.decode(charset, errors='surrogateescape')
             was_compressed = False
 
             # When the message states it is of a gzipped content type ensure