From 8f3dbba8592c589d8444364155e672c382d64a13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raphael Michel <mail@raphaelmichel.de>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 18:18:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] PDF renderer: Fail silently if bidirectional string handling
 failes

---
 src/pretix/base/pdf.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/pretix/base/pdf.py b/src/pretix/base/pdf.py
index d4813fee15..3572f5dad2 100644
--- a/src/pretix/base/pdf.py
+++ b/src/pretix/base/pdf.py
@@ -492,7 +492,10 @@ class Renderer:
             'support_ligatures': False,
         }
         reshaper = ArabicReshaper(configuration=configuration)
-        text = "<br/>".join(get_display(reshaper.reshape(l)) for l in text.split("<br/>"))
+        try:
+            text = "<br/>".join(get_display(reshaper.reshape(l)) for l in text.split("<br/>"))
+        except:
+            logger.exception('Reshaping/Bidi fixes failed on string {}'.format(repr(text)))
 
         p = Paragraph(text, style=style)
         w, h = p.wrapOn(canvas, float(o['width']) * mm, 1000 * mm)