wxGUI: encoding error in French locale when trying to delete layer with opacity level set

[mlennert]

> locale
LANG=fr_BE
LANGUAGE=fr_BE
LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=C
LC_TIME=fr_BE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=fr_BE.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=fr_BE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=fr_BE.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=fr_BE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=fr_BE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=fr_BE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=fr_BE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_BE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=fr_BE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

• Add a layer.

• Set its opacity level.

• Try to delete the layer from the layer manager:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/data/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64
-unknown-linux-gnu/etc/gui/wxpython/lmgr/frame.py", line
2050, in OnDeleteLayer

name = str(self.GetLayerTree().GetItemText(item))
UnicodeEncodeError
:
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 19:
ordinal not in range(128)

Bug present in all branches.

[annakrat]

Please try r59906 in trunk and following commits in branches.

[mlennert]

Replying to annakrat:

Please try r59906 in trunk and following commits in branches.

Tested in trunk and grass64release. Works great now. Closing.

It might be a good idea to add some of the basic rules concerning encoding and translation handling into SUBMITTING_PYTHON or SUBMITTING_WXGUI in order to archive our experience ?

Moritz