From 624a35fa74d266e4e2b4f81be6110eca20a76e9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sara Johnsson <46252070+Fendse@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:07:52 +0100
Subject: Prevent crash on non-UTF-8 hint dictionary

(cherry picked from commit 90b598282b9777164cfaf44bd717c499d1067194)
---
 qutebrowser/browser/hints.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py b/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
index 6cc4fb035..84474b6b0 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/browser/hints.py
@@ -1074,6 +1074,9 @@ class WordHinter:
             except OSError as e:
                 error = "Word hints requires reading the file at {}: {}"
                 raise HintingError(error.format(dictionary, str(e)))
+            except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
+                error = "Word hints expects the file at {} to be encoded as UTF-8: {}"
+                raise HintingError(error.format(dictionary, str(e)))
 
     def extract_tag_words(
             self, elem: webelem.AbstractWebElement
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