From ab887f2c65e8ac828c6855f9904c81909256fc45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 08:37:20 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] - carp if the a log text record is in perl's internal
 encoding instead of octets - attempt to encode the text to fix the problem
 after complaining

---
 Debbugs/Log.pm | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Debbugs/Log.pm b/Debbugs/Log.pm
index 2ae7af7..de63949 100644
--- a/Debbugs/Log.pm
+++ b/Debbugs/Log.pm
@@ -390,8 +390,12 @@ sub write_log_records
 	croak "record type '$type' with no text field" unless defined $record->{text};
 	# I am not sure if we really want to croak here; but this is
 	# almost certainly a bug if is_utf8 is on.
-	# croak "probably wrong encoding" if is_utf8($record->{text});
-	my ($text) = escape_log($record->{text});
+        my $text = $record->{text};
+        if (is_utf8($text)) {
+            carp('Record text was in the wrong encoding (perl internal instead of utf8 octets)');
+            $text = encode_utf8($text)
+        }
+	($text) = escape_log($text);
 	if ($type eq 'autocheck') {
 	    print {$logfh} "\01\n$text\03\n" or
 		die "Unable to write to logfile: $!";
-- 
2.39.2