1 files changed, 18 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/patch.py b/meta/lib/oe/patch.py
index cad50157dd..05e0faa5b7 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/patch.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/patch.py
@@ -415,16 +415,24 @@ class GitApplyTree(PatchTree):
             out = runcmd(["sh", "-c", " ".join(shellcmd)], tree)
             if out:
                 for srcfile in out.split():
-                    patchlines = []
-                    outfile = None
-                    with open(srcfile, 'r') as f:
-                        for line in f:
-                            if line.startswith(GitApplyTree.patch_line_prefix):
-                                outfile = line.split()[-1].strip()
-                                continue
-                            if line.startswith(GitApplyTree.ignore_commit_prefix):
-                                continue
-                            patchlines.append(line)
+                    for encoding in ['utf-8', 'latin-1']:
+                        patchlines = []
+                        outfile = None
+                        try:
+                            with open(srcfile, 'r', encoding=encoding) as f:
+                                for line in f:
+                                    if line.startswith(GitApplyTree.patch_line_prefix):
+                                        outfile = line.split()[-1].strip()
+                                        continue
+                                    if line.startswith(GitApplyTree.ignore_commit_prefix):
+                                        continue
+                                    patchlines.append(line)
+                        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                            continue
+                        break
+                    else:
+                        raise PatchError('Unable to find a character encoding to decode %s' % srcfile)
+
                     if not outfile:
                         outfile = os.path.basename(srcfile)
                     with open(os.path.join(outdir, outfile), 'w') as of: