Package: charm
Version: 1.9.1-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages charm depends on:
ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-feedparser 4.1-14 Universal Feed Parser for Python
ii python-support 1.0.11 automated rebuilding support for P
charm recommends no packages.
charm suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
I posted a blog entry to a wordpress 3.0.5 blog (with de language files) but i
can't open or edit the entry with charm again.
The following error message appears.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/charm", line 14, in <module>
ljcharm.main()
File "/usr/share/charm/ljcharm.py", line 6220, in main
jobj.do_metaweb(opts, resumeold, xpostfile, template, quick_opt)
File "/usr/share/charm/ljcharm.py", line 5782, in do_metaweb
self.main_blog(opts, resumeold, xpostfile, template, quick_opt)
File "/usr/share/charm/ljcharm.py", line 5530, in main_blog
self.blog_menu()
File "/usr/share/charm/ljcharm.py", line 5483, in blog_menu
repeat_ok = self.Blogger.blog_pick_edit_menu()
File "/usr/share/charm/ljcharm.py", line 5768, in metaweb_pick_edit_menu
return self.metaweb_get_post(server, entry["postid"])
File "/usr/share/charm/ljcharm.py", line 5578, in metaweb_get_post
return self.blog_get_entry(text, ttup)
File "/usr/share/charm/ljcharm.py", line 5329, in blog_get_entry
f.write(text)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position
64: ordinal not in range(128)
Obviously charm can't detect my local UTF-8 environment which causes python
falling back to ascii. I am using special characters
like german umlauts which are not displayed by ascii.
I've read python >=3 is using a different mechanism and switches to unicode
instead of ascii if it's not able to detect the correct locals.
Maybe there are two solutions:
1. Charm should depend on python >=3 which most likely solves this issue. (not
tested and not recommended because charm should work with
python >=2.5 too)
2. Force charm to encode all input with UTF-8
change the following lines in charm:
1129 mfile.write("%s=%s\n" % (k, self.Params[k].encode('UTF-8')))
2360 f.write("Subject: " + self.Params["subject"].encode('UTF-8')
+ "\n")
5329 f.write(text.encode('UTF-8'))
So on my system i got rid of the bug but it could cause trouble on others and
maybe it's not generic enough. Perhaps it helps someone.
Regards
Markus
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