Return a warning string if we try to encode to unsupported encoding

Fixes gitlab-development-kit#321

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/gitlab/encoding_helper.rb b/lib/gitlab/encoding_helper.rb
index c0edcabc6fd..6659efa0961 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/encoding_helper.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/encoding_helper.rb
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ module Gitlab
 
       # encode and clean the bad chars
       message.replace clean(message)
-    rescue ArgumentError
-      return nil
-    rescue
+    rescue ArgumentError => e
+      return unless e.message.include?('unknown encoding name')
+
       encoding = detect ? detect[:encoding] : "unknown"
       "--broken encoding: #{encoding}"
     end
diff --git a/spec/lib/gitlab/encoding_helper_spec.rb b/spec/lib/gitlab/encoding_helper_spec.rb
index 4e9367323cb..83d431a7458 100644
--- a/spec/lib/gitlab/encoding_helper_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/gitlab/encoding_helper_spec.rb
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ describe Gitlab::EncodingHelper do
         'removes invalid bytes from ASCII-8bit encoded multibyte string. This can occur when a git diff match line truncates in the middle of a multibyte character. This occurs after the second word in this example. The test string is as short as we can get while still triggering the error condition when not looking at `detect[:confidence]`.',
         "mu ns\xC3\n Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing ut\xC3\xA0y\xC3\xB9abcd\xC3\xB9efg kia elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non p\n {: .normal_pn}\n \n-Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in\n# *Lorem ipsum\xC3\xB9l\xC3\xB9l\xC3\xA0 dolor\xC3\xB9k\xC3\xB9 sit\xC3\xA8b\xC3\xA8 N\xC3\xA8 amet b\xC3\xA0d\xC3\xAC*\n+# *consectetur\xC3\xB9l\xC3\xB9l\xC3\xA0 adipisicing\xC3\xB9k\xC3\xB9 elit\xC3\xA8b\xC3\xA8 N\xC3\xA8 sed do\xC3\xA0d\xC3\xAC*{: .italic .smcaps}\n \n \xEF\x9B\xA1 eiusmod tempor incididunt, ut\xC3\xAAn\xC3\xB9 labore et dolore. Tw\xC4\x83nj\xC3\xAC magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam\n {: .normal}\n@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ quis nostrud\xC3\xAAt\xC3\xB9 exercitiation ullamco laboris m\xC3\xB9s\xC3\xB9k\xC3\xB9abc\xC3\xB9 nisi ".force_encoding('ASCII-8BIT'),
         "mu ns\n Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing ut\xC3\xA0y\xC3\xB9abcd\xC3\xB9efg kia elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non p\n {: .normal_pn}\n \n-Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in\n# *Lorem ipsum\xC3\xB9l\xC3\xB9l\xC3\xA0 dolor\xC3\xB9k\xC3\xB9 sit\xC3\xA8b\xC3\xA8 N\xC3\xA8 amet b\xC3\xA0d\xC3\xAC*\n+# *consectetur\xC3\xB9l\xC3\xB9l\xC3\xA0 adipisicing\xC3\xB9k\xC3\xB9 elit\xC3\xA8b\xC3\xA8 N\xC3\xA8 sed do\xC3\xA0d\xC3\xAC*{: .italic .smcaps}\n \n \xEF\x9B\xA1 eiusmod tempor incididunt, ut\xC3\xAAn\xC3\xB9 labore et dolore. Tw\xC4\x83nj\xC3\xAC magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam\n {: .normal}\n@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ quis nostrud\xC3\xAAt\xC3\xB9 exercitiation ullamco laboris m\xC3\xB9s\xC3\xB9k\xC3\xB9abc\xC3\xB9 nisi "
+      ],
+      [
+        'string with detected encoding that is not supported in Ruby',
+        "\xFFe,i\xFF,\xB8oi,'\xB8,\xFF,-",
+        "--broken encoding: IBM420_ltr"
       ]
     ].each do |description, test_string, xpect|
       it description do