#1306 UnicodeDecodeError in render.py

[eucaly61]

== Symptom ==

• Install TaskCoach-1.3.18-win32.exe
• run TaskCoach => "task window" shows nothing
• click new task button => New task window (Task properties) will not pop-up

== Findings ==

• Versions after 1.3.17 also HAVE such problem
  TaskCoach-1.3.17-win32.exe
  TaskCoach-1.3.18.5592-win32.exe

• Versions before 1.3.16 did NOT have such problem
  TaskCoach-1.3.1-win32.exe
  TaskCoach-1.3.9-win32.exe
  TaskCoach-1.3.13-win32.exe
  TaskCoach-1.3.15-win32.exe
  TaskCoach-1.3.16-win32.exe

• replace library.zip\taskcoachlib\render.pyo in 1.3.17 (or 1.3.18) with that from 1.3.16 can "work around" the problem.
  => it looks the problem comes from render.py since 1.3.17

[eucaly61]

error logs as attached file

• also another problem, ... need super user access right (under Win7) for TaskCoact to write *.log ..., or I have to install TaskCoach OUTSIDE c:\program files

[Jérome Laheurte]

Fix committed.

[Frank Niessink]

This bug should be fixed in release 1.3.19. Can you please confirm it fixed?

[eucaly61]

Thanks for quick response,
tried 1.3.19, same failure symptom, but different error message (see attached file)

File "taskcoachlib\gui\viewer\task.pyo", line 1084, in renderedValue
File "taskcoachlib\render.pyo", line 153, in dateTime
File "taskcoachlib\render.pyo", line 132, in <lambda>
File "taskcoachlib\render.pyo", line 97, in <lambda>
LookupError: unknown encoding: windows-950</lambda></lambda>

[Jérome Laheurte]

Fix committed again. Should work with Chinese encodings now.