Prefer latin-1 to the replacement character it not utf-8

Closes joepie91#135
Keisial · Dec 14, 2017 · 7500f0a · 7500f0a
2 parents d4cec15 + 93672ea
commit 7500f0a
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diff --git a/pythonwhois/net.py b/pythonwhois/net.py
@@ -109,4 +109,10 @@ def whois_request(domain, server, port=43, timeout=None):
 		if len(data) == 0:
 			break
 		buff += data
-	return buff.decode("utf-8", "replace")
+	try:
+		d = buff.decode("utf-8")
+	except UnicodeDecodeError:
+		d = buff.decode("latin-1", "replace")
+
+	return d
+