Build in the behavior to ignore decodeUTF8 errors

Makes the code clearer and more explicit in intent.

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/core/rfb.js b/core/rfb.js
index e584960..6f717bd 100644
--- a/core/rfb.js
+++ b/core/rfb.js
@@ -1180,11 +1180,7 @@ export default class RFB extends EventTargetMixin {
         const name_length = this._sock.rQshift32();
         if (this._sock.rQwait('server init name', name_length, 24)) { return false; }
         let name = this._sock.rQshiftStr(name_length);
-        try {
-            name = decodeUTF8(name);
-        } catch (e) {
-            // bypass no-empty
-        }
+        name = decodeUTF8(name, true);
 
         if (this._rfb_tightvnc) {
             if (this._sock.rQwait('TightVNC extended server init header', 8, 24 + name_length)) { return false; }
@@ -1721,11 +1717,7 @@ export default class RFB extends EventTargetMixin {
         }
 
         let name = this._sock.rQshiftStr(length);
-        try {
-            name = decodeUTF8(name);
-        } catch (e) {
-            // bypass no-empty
-        }
+        name = decodeUTF8(name, true);
 
         this._setDesktopName(name);
 
diff --git a/core/util/strings.js b/core/util/strings.js
index 944e81c..3dd4b29 100644
--- a/core/util/strings.js
+++ b/core/util/strings.js
@@ -7,8 +7,19 @@
  */
 
 // Decode from UTF-8
-export function decodeUTF8(utf8string) {
-    return decodeURIComponent(escape(utf8string));
+export function decodeUTF8(utf8string, allowLatin1=false) {
+    try {
+        return decodeURIComponent(escape(utf8string));
+    } catch (e) {
+        if (e instanceof URIError) {
+            if (allowLatin1) {
+                // If we allow Latin1 we can ignore any decoding fails
+                // and in these cases return the original string
+                return utf8string;
+            }
+        }
+        throw e;
+    }
 }
 
 // Encode to UTF-8