Re: [Gramps-devel] Last CVS snapshot: Custom filter editor can't save 8-bit info

[Don A. <dal...@us...>]

On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 20:16, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:31:32AM -0500, Alex Roitman wrote:
> > This is the traceback I get when trying to save a couple 
> > of filters with KOI8 names:
> > 
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/libglade.py", line 28, in __call__
> >     ret = apply(self.func, a)
> >   File "/usr/local/share/gramps/plugins/FilterEditor.py", line 83, in close_filter_editor
> >     self.filterdb.save()
> >   File "/usr/local/share/gramps/GenericFilter.py", line 716, in save
> >     f.write('      <arg value="%s"/>\n' % self.fix(v))
> > UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> This looks to me like Python 2.1/GTK is returning Unicode strings.
> I'm not sure what can be done about this that won't break Python 1.5.2
> compatibility.

Yes, this is a 1.5.2 vs. 2.1 problem. However, I have some routines that
will attempt to convert unicode to latin. I can't wait until we can dump
1.5.2.

I'll see about converting this over the next day or so. I will be
traveling so it may take me a bit.


Don

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