more error resilient for voter_id encoding

omidraha · Jun 5, 2011 · 5c49182 · 5c49182
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commit 5c49182
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diff --git a/helios/models.py b/helios/models.py
@@ -827,7 +827,10 @@ def voter_id_hash(self):
     try:
       return utils.hash_b64(value_to_hash)
     except:
-      return utils.hash_b64(value_to_hash.encode('latin-1'))
+      try:
+        return utils.hash_b64(value_to_hash.encode('latin-1'))
+      except:
+        return utils.hash_b64(value_to_hash.encode('utf-8'))        
 
   @property
   def voter_type(self):