get around occasional utf8 conversion exceptions by swallowing

those exceptions and moving on, since the output never seemed
wrong in these cases anyway

dr.botzo.py

@@ -52,9 +52,15 @@ class DrBotServerConnection(irclib.ServerConnection):
                 self.send_raw("PRIVMSG %s :%s" % (target, unicode(splittext).encode('utf-8')))
 
             # done splitting
-            self.send_raw("PRIVMSG %s :%s" % (target, unicode(text).encode('utf-8')))
+            try:
+                text = unicode(text).encode('utf-8')
+            except UnicodeDecodeError: pass
+            self.send_raw("PRIVMSG %s :%s" % (target, text))
         else:
-            self.send_raw("PRIVMSG %s :%s" % (target, unicode(text).encode('utf-8')))
+            try:
+                text = unicode(text).encode('utf-8')
+            except UnicodeDecodeError: pass
+            self.send_raw("PRIVMSG %s :%s" % (target, text))
 
 class DrBotIRC(irclib.IRC):
     """Subclass irclib's IRC, in order to create a DrBotServerConnection."""

modules/GoogleTranslate.py

@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ class GoogleTranslate(Module):
             fromlang = whats[1]
             tolang = whats[2]
             text = ' '.join(whats[3:])
-            text = text.encode('utf-8')
+            try:
+                text = text.encode('utf-8')
+            except UnicodeDecodeError: pass
 
             langpair = '%s|%s' % (fromlang, tolang)
             gt_url = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?'