[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1672: gcpmanager fails to list source mapsets if non-ascii characters in grass data dir path

[GRASS GIS]

#1672: gcpmanager fails to list source mapsets if non-ascii characters in grass
data dir path
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 Reporter:  hamish                            |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect                            |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  normal                            |   Milestone:  6.4.3                    
Component:  wxGUI                             |     Version:  6.4.2                    
 Keywords:  georectifier, UnicodeDecodeError  |    Platform:  Linux                    
      Cpu:  x86-64                            |  
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 [Hi, one fwd'd from the Debian bug tracker, http://bugs.debian.org/676190
 --H]

 {{{
 From: Torsti Schulz <torsti.schulz at iki dot fi>
 To: Debian Bug Tracking System
 Subject: grass-gui: gcpmanager fails to list source mapsets if non-ascii
 characters
  in grass data dir path
 Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:35:48 +0300

 Package: grass-gui
 Version: 6.4.2-1
 Severity: normal

 Hi,

 Using the wxpython GUI Georectify tool is impossible if the path to the
 grass
 data directory (e.g. GRASSDATA) contains non ascii characters (e.g.
 '/home/user/Työpöytä/GRASSDATA'). Selecting the source location works, but
 the 'Select source mapset:' dropdown menu remains greyed out. The command
 console shows the following error message, after selecting the source
 location:

 ***
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File
 "/usr/lib/grass64/etc/wxpython/gui_modules/gcpmanager.py",
 line 377, in OnLocation

 tmplist = os.listdir(os.path.join(self.grassdatabase,
 self.xylocation))
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 71, in join

 path += '/' + b
 UnicodeDecodeError
 :
 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 15: ordinal
 not in range(128)
 ***

 Changing the grass data directory path to only contain ascii characters
 (e.g.
 '/home/user/GRASSDATA') makes the Georectify tool usable. This seems to an
 issue with how the python code handles path names and unicode characters.

 Cheers,
 Torsti



 -- System Information:
 Debian Release: wheezy/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (700, 'testing')
 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
 Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
 Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

 Versions of packages grass-gui depends on:
 ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.4.1.1-1
 ii  grass-core                            6.4.2-1
 ii  lesstif2                              1:0.95.2-1
 ii  libc6                                 2.13-33
 ii  libfreetype6                          2.4.9-1
 ii  libgdal1                              1.9.0-2
 ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]              8.0.2-2
 ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]                8.0.2-2
 ii  libice6                               2:1.0.8-2
 ii  libpng12-0                            1.2.49-1
 ii  libsm6                                2:1.2.1-2
 ii  libtiff5                              4.0.1-7
 ii  libx11-6                              2:1.4.99.901-2
 ii  libxext6                              2:1.3.1-2
 ii  libxmu6                               2:1.1.1-1
 ii  libxt6                                1:1.1.3-1
 ii  python                                2.7.2-10
 ii  python-opengl                         3.0.1-1
 ii  python-wxgtk2.8                       2.8.12.1-11
 ii  tcl8.5                                8.5.11-2
 ii  tk8.5                                 8.5.11-2
 ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           278-1
 ii  zlib1g                                1:1.2.7.dfsg-11

 Versions of packages grass-gui recommends:
 ii  ghostscript     9.05~dfsg-6
 ii  python-imaging  1.1.7-4

 grass-gui suggests no packages.
 }}}

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