From b81ac1d6e05ef73a3613134ea799332990706bc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Sampson <adrian@radbox.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:58:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix crash when stdin comes from pipe w/o encoding

This allows, for example, "yes | beet convert".
---
 beets/ui/__init__.py | 2 +-
 docs/changelog.rst   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/beets/ui/__init__.py b/beets/ui/__init__.py
index d6a29a2e1..c3fb162e3 100644
--- a/beets/ui/__init__.py
+++ b/beets/ui/__init__.py
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ def input_(prompt=None):
     except EOFError:
         raise UserError('stdin stream ended while input required')
 
-    return resp.decode(sys.stdin.encoding, 'ignore')
+    return resp.decode(sys.stdin.encoding or 'utf8', 'ignore')
 
 def input_options(options, require=False, prompt=None, fallback_prompt=None,
                   numrange=None, default=None, color=False, max_width=72):
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 68922815e..19d95b86d 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ Changelog
   non-ASCII extensions.
 * Fix for changing date fields (like "year") with the :ref:`modify-cmd`
   command.
+* Fix a crash when input is read from a pipe without a specified encoding.
 * Add a human-readable error message when writing files' tags fails.
 * Changed plugin loading so that modules can be imported without
   unintentionally loading the plugins they contain.