id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc cpu platform 2120 wxgui: encoding errors mlennert grass-dev@… "Using grass64release in French (locale: fr_BE.utf8), I seem to be seeing more encoding errors than before in the wxGUI. Examples are when running v.in.ogr, r.in.gdal, v.build. In fact whenever a module emits a message in the locale's language which contains special characters, I get errors such as {{{ 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 16: ordinal not in range(128) }}} I don't get such errors on the command line. These errors do not keep the module from functioning, but it makes reading its messages nearly impossible unless you really know what to look for. I don't have the time now to go back and try to find out if this worked better before, but I do think so. It might just be that more strings have been translated to French and that is why I see these errors now. I think this also adds to the recent discussions about test in that it makes it evident that if we want to take multi-locale usage of GRASS seriously, we probably need to think of a series of tests that developers should use to make sure any changes do not create such encoding problems. Moritz" defect closed major 6.4.6 wxGUI svn-releasebranch64 fixed locale encoding All All