[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #2496: Error trying to make distance matrix for "ID fields" with non ascii characters

[Quantum GIS]

#2496: Error trying to make distance matrix for "ID fields" with non ascii
characters
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        Reporter:  gislab                            |         Owner:  cfarmer      
            Type:  bug                               |        Status:  new          
        Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |     Milestone:  Version 1.5.0
       Component:  Python plugins and bindings       |       Version:  HEAD         
      Resolution:                                    |      Keywords:               
Platform_version:                                    |      Platform:  All          
        Must_fix:  Yes                               |   Status_info:  0            
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Changes (by lutra):

  * summary:  Error trying to make distance matrix for categories with
              cyrrilics => Error trying to make distance
              matrix for "ID fields" with non ascii
              characters

Comment:

 The same happens with non ascii chars, like "ç" or "õ". The error is the
 same


 {{{
 An error has occured while executing Python code:

 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/fTools/tools/doPointDistance.py",
 line 105, in accept
     self.compute(point1, point2, field1, field2, outPath, matType,
 nearest, self.progressBar)
   File "/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/fTools/tools/doPointDistance.py",
 line 152, in compute
     self.regularMatrix(writer, provider1, provider2, index1, index2,
 nearest, distArea, sindex, progressBar)
   File "/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/fTools/tools/doPointDistance.py",
 line 173, in regularMatrix
     writer.writerow(data)
 UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 3-4:
 ordinal not in range(128)
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/2496#comment:4>
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