wxGUI: UnicodeEncodeError in Help -> GIS GUI help

[neteler]

Trying Help -> GIS GUI help, I got:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/neteler/grass64/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-
gnu/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 538, in OnAboutGRASS

win = AboutWindow(self)
  File "/home/neteler/grass64/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-
gnu/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 1669, in __init__

authortxt = wx.StaticText(authorwin, id=wx.ID_ANY,
label=str(authors))
UnicodeEncodeError
:
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u571f' in position
91: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/neteler/grass64/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-
gnu/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 538, in OnAboutGRASS

win = AboutWindow(self)
  File "/home/neteler/grass64/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-
gnu/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 1669, in __init__

authortxt = wx.StaticText(authorwin, id=wx.ID_ANY,
label=str(authors))
UnicodeEncodeError
:
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u571f' in position
91: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/neteler/grass64/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-
gnu/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 538, in OnAboutGRASS

win = AboutWindow(self)
  File "/home/neteler/grass64/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-
gnu/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 1669, in __init__

authortxt = wx.StaticText(authorwin, id=wx.ID_ANY,
label=str(authors))
UnicodeEncodeError
:
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u571f' in position
91: ordinal not in range(128)
(Wed Jan 13 03:48:45 2010)                                                      
g.manual wxGUI

Closing, opening the GUI solved the problem. Feel free to close if there is nothing to fix.

Markus

[glynn]

Replying to neteler: Trying Help -> GIS GUI help, I got:

authortxt = wx.StaticText(authorwin, id=wx.ID_ANY, label=str(authors))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u571f' in position 91: ordinal not in range(128)
(Wed Jan 13 03:48:45 2010)                                                      
g.manual wxGUI

The error refers to the code which is run for Help -> About GRASS GIS (OnAboutGRASS()), while "g.manual wxGUI" is run for Help -> GRASS GIS GUI help.

I'm guessing that the error relates to #860, but you only noticed it later (when the GUI switched to the command output tab for g.manual.

Did you try adding a Japanese name to AUTHORS? If so, that's likely to fail due to str(authors) (which is bogus; you can (and should) pass Python unicode() objects to wxPython; there isn't any reason to convert to a str()).

Fixed in 7.0 with r40408. 6.4 is quite different (most of the help stuff has been moved from wxgui.py to gui_modules/help.py).

[neteler]

Replying to glynn:

Replying to neteler: Trying Help -> GIS GUI help, I got:

authortxt = wx.StaticText(authorwin, id=wx.ID_ANY, label=str(authors))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u571f' in position 91: ordinal not in range(128)
(Wed Jan 13 03:48:45 2010)                                                      
g.manual wxGUI

The error refers to the code which is run for Help -> About GRASS GIS (OnAboutGRASS()), while "g.manual wxGUI" is run for Help -> GRASS GIS GUI help.

Sorry for the confusion.

I'm guessing that the error relates to #860, but you only noticed it later (when the GUI switched to the command output tab for g.manual.

Did you try adding a Japanese name to AUTHORS?

After applying your fix to 6.4, I could read the file again in wxGUI and found

$Date: 2010-01-09 05:20:30 +0100 (土, 09  1月 2010) $

So the locale influences the SVN Date tag. Interesting.

If so, that's likely to fail due to str(authors) (which is bogus; you can (and should) pass Python unicode() objects to wxPython; there isn't any reason to convert to a str()).

Fixed in 7.0 with r40408. 6.4 is quite different (most of the help stuff has been moved from wxgui.py to gui_modules/help.py).

Fixed in r40409 (6.4) and r40410 (6.5).

Markus