From 255cacf9127e11d84c104e821dd67a9c10afe50c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 06:35:43 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] kitty shell prompt: fallback to plain ascii prompt in case of
 unicode errors

---
 kitty/shell.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kitty/shell.py b/kitty/shell.py
index 35756077d..17f2af742 100644
--- a/kitty/shell.py
+++ b/kitty/shell.py
@@ -155,7 +155,10 @@ def real_main(global_opts):
 
     while True:
         try:
-            cmdline = input('🐱 ')
+            try:
+                cmdline = input('🐱 ')
+            except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                cmdline = input('kitty> ')
         except EOFError:
             break
         except KeyboardInterrupt: