Wx location wizard fails to create location if it's title contains non-latin letters

[marisn]

Start location wizard. Enter as a location title "āžņļ". Prceed till end. Location is created, still new location is not listed on location list unless GRASS is restarted.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Program Files/GRASS-64/etc/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 411, in OnWizar
d
    grassdatabase = self.tgisdbase.GetValue())
  File "c:/osgeo4w/usr/src/grass-6.4.1RC1/dist.i686-pc-mingw32/etc/wxpython/gui_
modules/location_wizard.py", line 1828, in __init__
  File "c:/osgeo4w/usr/src/grass-6.4.1RC1/dist.i686-pc-mingw32/etc/wxpython/gui_
modules/location_wizard.py", line 2020, in OnWizFinished
  File "C:\Program Files\GRASS-64\etc\python\grass\script\core.py", line 1015, i
n create_location
    fd.write(desc + os.linesep)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0122' in position 0
: ordinal not in range(128)

[martinl]

Hopefully fixed in r45550 (trunk) and r45551 (devbr6). MYNAME is currently using UTF-8 encoding. Only tested on Linux.

[marisn]

Works fine on Windows too. Leaving open till backported to 6.4.

[martinl]

Replying to marisn:

Works fine on Windows too. Leaving open till backported to 6.4.

done in r45572. Closing the ticket.