Build in the behavior to ignore decodeUTF8 errors

Makes the code clearer and more explicit in intent.

kasmweb/core/rfb.js

@@ -1288,11 +1288,7 @@ export default class RFB extends EventTargetMixin {
         const name_length = this._sock.rQshift32();
         if (this._sock.rQwait('server init name', name_length, 24)) { return false; }
         let name = this._sock.rQshiftStr(name_length);
-        try {
-            name = decodeUTF8(name);
-        } catch (e) {
-            // bypass no-empty
-        }
+        name = decodeUTF8(name, true);
 
         if (this._rfb_tightvnc) {
             if (this._sock.rQwait('TightVNC extended server init header', 8, 24 + name_length)) { return false; }
@@ -1912,11 +1908,7 @@ export default class RFB extends EventTargetMixin {
         }
 
         let name = this._sock.rQshiftStr(length);
-        try {
-            name = decodeUTF8(name);
-        } catch (e) {
-            // bypass no-empty
-        }
+        name = decodeUTF8(name, true);
 
         this._setDesktopName(name);
 

kasmweb/core/util/strings.js

@@ -7,8 +7,19 @@
  */
 
 // Decode from UTF-8
-export function decodeUTF8(utf8string) {
-    return decodeURIComponent(escape(utf8string));
+export function decodeUTF8(utf8string, allowLatin1=false) {
+    try {
+        return decodeURIComponent(escape(utf8string));
+    } catch (e) {
+        if (e instanceof URIError) {
+            if (allowLatin1) {
+                // If we allow Latin1 we can ignore any decoding fails
+                // and in these cases return the original string
+                return utf8string;
+            }
+        }
+        throw e;
+    }
 }
 
 // Encode to UTF-8