From 3d83ce6d7ac7c2e38aca0767f906e8a1c50aa619 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Juraj=20Mich=C3=A1lek?= <juraj.michalek@espressif.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:09:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tools: handle exception in case of logging Unicode characters

---
 tools/idf_monitor.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/idf_monitor.py b/tools/idf_monitor.py
index 8cc95afc47..1f6e2df693 100755
--- a/tools/idf_monitor.py
+++ b/tools/idf_monitor.py
@@ -824,6 +824,9 @@ if os.name == 'nt':
                 # an exception (however, the character is still written to the screen)
                 # Ref https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/issues/1136
                 pass
+            except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                # In case of double byte Unicode characters display '?'
+                self.output.write('?')
 
         def write(self, data):
             if isinstance(data, bytes):