[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #868: wxGUI: UnicodeEncodeError in Help -> GIS GUI help

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#868: wxGUI: UnicodeEncodeError in Help -> GIS GUI help
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  Reporter:  neteler  |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  6.4.0                    
 Component:  wxGUI    |     Version:  svn-releasebranch64      
Resolution:           |    Keywords:                           
  Platform:  Linux    |         Cpu:  x86-64                   
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Comment (by glynn):

 Replying to [ticket:868 neteler]:
 Trying  Help -> GIS GUI help, I got:

 {{{
 authortxt = wx.StaticText(authorwin, id=wx.ID_ANY, label=str(authors))
 UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u571f' in
 position 91: ordinal not in range(128)
 (Wed Jan 13 03:48:45 2010)
 g.manual wxGUI
 }}}

 The error refers to the code which is run for Help -> About GRASS GIS
 (OnAboutGRASS()), while "g.manual wxGUI" is run for Help -> GRASS GIS GUI
 help.

 I'm guessing that the error relates to #860, but you only noticed it later
 (when the GUI switched to the command output tab for g.manual.

 Did you try adding a Japanese name to AUTHORS? If so, that's likely to
 fail due to str(authors) (which is bogus; you can (and should) pass Python
 unicode() objects to wxPython; there isn't any reason to convert to a
 str()).

 Fixed in 7.0 with r40408. 6.4 is quite different (most of the help stuff
 has been moved from wxgui.py to gui_modules/help.py).

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