From efb04ddd8ff9ce512b361d2da5a07e49681a0a3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ozzie Isaacs <ozzie.fernandez.isaacs@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:58:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #2061 (Defective utf-16 txt files)

---
 cps/web.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cps/web.py b/cps/web.py
index 14857965..9dcb6541 100644
--- a/cps/web.py
+++ b/cps/web.py
@@ -1420,7 +1420,7 @@ def serve_book(book_id, book_format, anyname):
                                "rb").read()
                 result = chardet.detect(rawdata)
                 return make_response(
-                    rawdata.decode(result['encoding']).encode('utf-8'))
+                    rawdata.decode(result['encoding'], 'surrogatepass').encode('utf-8', 'surrogatepass'))
             except FileNotFoundError:
                 log.error("File Not Found")
                 return "File Not Found"