v.import/r.import: UnicodeEncodeError when path contains special characters

[mlennert]

Trying to importing a file that resides in a path with special characters (accent in this case), I get the following errors.

In trunk:

> v.import input=/home/mlennert/Données/ne_110m_admin_0_countries/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.shp output=countries
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/v.import", line 284, in <module>
    options, flags = grass.parser()
  File "/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/etc/python/grass/script/core.py", line 719, in parser
    cmdline += [b'"' + encode(arg) + b'"' for arg in sys.argv[1:]]
  File "/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/etc/python/grass/script/utils.py", line 174, in encode
    return string.encode(enc)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 25: ordinal not in range(128)

In release70:

> v.import input=/home/mlennert/Données/ne_110m_admin_0_countries/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.shp output=countries
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass70_release/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/v.import", line 273, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass70_release/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/v.import", line 158, in main
    f.write('GISDBASE: %s\n' % GISDBASE)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 29: ordinal not in range(128)

I get exactly the same errors with r.import.

[mlennert]

Replying to mlennert:

Trying to importing a file that resides in a path with special characters (accent in this case), I get the following errors.

In trunk:

> v.import input=/home/mlennert/Données/ne_110m_admin_0_countries/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.shp output=countries
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/v.import", line 284, in <module>
    options, flags = grass.parser()
  File "/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/etc/python/grass/script/core.py", line 719, in parser
    cmdline += [b'"' + encode(arg) + b'"' for arg in sys.argv[1:]]
  File "/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/etc/python/grass/script/utils.py", line 174, in encode
    return string.encode(enc)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 25: ordinal not in range(128)

In release70:

Correction: in release70 the below error is due to GISDBASE containing an accent, not because of the file path. When GISDBASE does not contain an accent, below import works, even if the path to the imported file contains an accent.

> v.import input=/home/mlennert/Données/ne_110m_admin_0_countries/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.shp output=countries
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass70_release/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/v.import", line 273, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass70_release/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/scripts/v.import", line 158, in main
    f.write('GISDBASE: %s\n' % GISDBASE)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 29: ordinal not in range(128)

[annakrat]

Tested on Linux and it works for me in trunk and 7.0.5.