Hi Dan,
sorry, but I have another patch for fvwm-menu-desktop again ...
On a system with wine the following error occur:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./fvwm-menu-desktop.in.py", line 536, in <module>
main()
File "./fvwm-menu-desktop.in.py", line 213, in main
parsemenus(menulist, desktop)
File "./fvwm-menu-desktop.in.py", line 429, in parsemenus
parsemenu(xdg.Menu.parse(menu), name, title)
File "./fvwm-menu-desktop.in.py", line 502, in parsemenu
parsemenu(entry)
File "./fvwm-menu-desktop.in.py", line 486, in parsemenu
printmenu(desktop.getName(), desktop.getIcon(), "Exec exec " + " "
+ execProgram)
File "./fvwm-menu-desktop.in.py", line 407, in printmenu
printtext('+ "%s%s" %s' % (name, iconfile, command))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
154: ordinal not in range(128)
This happens because the text will be decoded to utf-8 but there's a sign
over ascii 127 like ä,ö,ü ... so it fails.
The fix is to encode it to unicode and then decode it with iso-8859-15
to the correct string.
About this problem see
http://blog.codekills.net/2008/05/01/encoding-and-decoding-text-in-python-%28or---i-didn%27t-ask-you-to-use-the-%27ascii%27-codec!-%29/
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Regards,
Thomas
--- ../cvs/fvwm/bin/fvwm-menu-desktop.in 2012-09-07 23:58:20.407275653 +0200
+++ fvwm-menu-desktop.in.py 2012-09-08 00:10:36.551201906 +0200
@@ -409,7 +409,18 @@
iconfile = geticonfile(icon) or getdefaulticonfile(command) or icon
if not iconfile == '':
iconfile = '%'+iconfile+'%'
- printtext('+ "%s%s" %s' % (name, iconfile, command))
+ # fix unicode decode problem like
+ # UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position xyz: ordinal not in range(128)
+ try:
+ printtext('+ "%s%s" %s' % (name, iconfile, command))
+ except UnicodeDecodeError:
+ try:
+ unicode_name = name.decode("iso-8859-15")
+ unicode_command = command.decode("iso-8859-15")
+ text = '+ "%s%s" %s' % (unicode_name, iconfile, unicode_command)
+ print text.encode("iso-8859-15")
+ except:
+ sys.stderr.write("A menu entry cannot decode! Skipping it ...\n")
def parsemenus(menulist, desktop):
global menu_entry_count
