[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1607: WXGUI regression - attribute query fails to display text attribute values

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#1607: WXGUI regression - attribute query fails to display text attribute values
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 Reporter:  marisn       |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect       |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  6.4.3                    
Component:  wxGUI        |     Version:  6.4.2                    
 Keywords:  query        |    Platform:  Unspecified              
      Cpu:  Unspecified  |  
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Comment(by marisn):

 Replying to [comment:3 neteler]:
 > Yes, confirmed.
 >
 > while GRASS' wxGUI query tool cannot giving the indicated error.
 >
 > Also the Tcl/TK form fails: "nosaukums :  âðòï "

 Well - OGR just passes raw string trough. It's not correct, still for a
 latin letters based text it will work just fine. I made a bad example, as
 I should be using example "Rîga", which is incorrect, still for anyone in
 Latvia it would be clear that it should be "Rīga". GRASS 6.4.0 was just
 passing-through any attribute data and thus ignored any coding issues.
 Changes in 6.4.x introduced (broken by design) recoding of values and thus
 instead of just seeing broken string, that might be meaningful enough to
 be fine, now it displays error message. Saying "just set correct encoding
 in blahblah" for non-technical users equals "no attributes for You!".
 Why it's broken? Try to set encoding in preferences to datasets encoding:
 "CP-1257"

 {{{
 Settings applied to current session but not saved
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/maris/soft/grass_64/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-
 gnu/etc/wxpython/lmgr/frame.py", line 1355, in
 OnShowAttributeTable

 selection = selection)
   File "/home/maris/soft/grass_64/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-
 gnu/etc/wxpython/dbmgr/manager.py", line 641, in __init__

 self._createBrowsePage()
   File "/home/maris/soft/grass_64/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-
 gnu/etc/wxpython/dbmgr/manager.py", line 688, in
 _createBrowsePage

 self.mapDBInfo, layer)
   File "/home/maris/soft/grass_64/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-
 gnu/etc/wxpython/dbmgr/manager.py", line 93, in __init__

 keyColumn = self.LoadData(layer)
   File "/home/maris/soft/grass_64/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-
 gnu/etc/wxpython/dbmgr/manager.py", line 246, in LoadData

 self.AddDataRow(i, record, columns, keyId)
   File "/home/maris/soft/grass_64/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-
 gnu/etc/wxpython/dbmgr/manager.py", line 295, in AddDataRow

 self.itemDataMap[i].append(unicodeValue(value))
   File "/home/maris/soft/grass_64/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-
 gnu/etc/wxpython/dbmgr/vinfo.py", line 35, in unicodeValue

 value = unicode(value, enc)
 LookupError
 :
 unknown encoding: CP-1257
 }}}

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