From 202d112e0df1021e6ea94bad3c800760489a1634 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:32:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added handling for a decoding exception during submission
 processing.  - Legacy-Id: 17151

---
 ietf/submit/parsers/plain_parser.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ietf/submit/parsers/plain_parser.py b/ietf/submit/parsers/plain_parser.py
index c7b0538af..f34394e54 100644
--- a/ietf/submit/parsers/plain_parser.py
+++ b/ietf/submit/parsers/plain_parser.py
@@ -44,7 +44,10 @@ class PlainParser(FileParser):
         if self.parsed_info.charset in ['us-ascii', 'utf-8']:
             while limit:
                 limit -= 1
-                line = self.fd.readline().decode(self.parsed_info.charset)
+                try:
+                    line = self.fd.readline().decode(self.parsed_info.charset)
+                except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                    return
                 match = draftre.search(line)
                 if not match:
                     continue