catch a RuntimeError from reproject_vector

HISTORY.rst

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ Release History
 ===============
 
 .. Unreleased Changes
+* ``reproject_vector`` will skip copying field values from the base layer
+  to the target if doing so would raise a RuntimeError,
+  such as when a string value cannot be represented by UTF-8.
+  https://github.com/natcap/pygeoprocessing/issues/418
 
 2.4.7 (2025-01-23)
 ------------------

src/pygeoprocessing/geoprocessing.py

@@ -2180,7 +2180,7 @@ def reproject_vector(
 
     target_sr = osr.SpatialReference(target_projection_wkt)
 
-    # create a new shapefile from the orginal_datasource
+    # create a new vector from the orginal_datasource
     target_driver = ogr.GetDriverByName(driver_name)
     target_vector = target_driver.CreateDataSource(target_path)
 
@@ -2277,8 +2277,19 @@ def reproject_vector(
         # source field
         for target_index, base_index in (
                 target_to_base_field_id_map.items()):
-            target_feature.SetField(
-                target_index, base_feature.GetField(base_index))
+            try:
+                target_feature.SetField(
+                    target_index, base_feature.GetField(base_index))
+            except RuntimeError:
+                try:
+                    target_feature.SetFieldBinary(
+                        target_index,
+                        base_feature.GetFieldAsBinary(base_index))
+                except RuntimeError as runtime_error:
+                    LOGGER.debug(
+                        f"Skipping copy field value for feature {feature_index}, "
+                        f"field {layer_dfn.GetFieldDefn(base_index).GetName()} "
+                        f"due to: {runtime_error}")
 
         target_layer.CreateFeature(target_feature)
         target_feature = None