Re: [Gramps-devel] UnicodeDecodeError

[Alex R. <sh...@gr...>]

Stefan,

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 08:03 +0200, Stefan Bj=C3=B6rk wrote:
> Thank you, I managed to compile and install Gramps, both the head SVN
> version and the older CVS version. However, I still experience an error:
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> /home/s/skalman/share/gramps/gramps.py:101: PangoWarning: Invalid UTF-8 s=
tring passed to pango_layout_set_text()
>   gtk.main()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/home/s/skalman/share/gramps/StartupDialog.py", line 206, in co=
mplete
>     GrampsKeys.save_researcher_name(unicode(self.name.get_text()))
>     UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 9-12:=
 invalid data
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> Could this have something to do with the fact that I run an Xvnc
> server in en_US.iso88591 locale? The error occurs with both
> LANG=3Dsv_SE.utf8 and LANG=3Dsv_SE.iso88591 and no LANG at all.

This looks like a problem encoding your name, as it has
the "=C3=B6" character in it. My guess is that it is stored as latin1
and then attempted to interpret as utf8. I am not sure how exactly
this happened.

As a workaround, you may enter something ascii-only or UTF-8
into the gconf key storing the researcher name. The key is
called /apps/gramps/researcher/researcher-name
You may either use command line (gconftool-2) or GUI (gconf-editor)
to get/set the key.

Please let me know if this solves the problem,
Alex

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Alexander Roitman   http://www.gramps-project.org