[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:  closed                   
  Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  6.4.0                    
 Component:  wxGUI    |     Version:  svn-releasebranch64      
Resolution:  fixed    |    Keywords:                           
  Platform:  Linux    |         Cpu:  x86-64                   
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Changes (by neteler):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => fixed

Comment:

 Replying to [comment:1 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.

 Sorry for the confusion.

 > 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?

 After applying your fix to 6.4, I could read the file again in wxGUI and
 found

 {{{
 $Date: 2010-01-09 05:20:30 +0100 (土, 09  1月 2010) $
 }}}

 So the locale influences the SVN Date tag. Interesting.

 > 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).

 Fixed in r40409 (6.4) and r40410 (6.5).

 Markus

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