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diff --git a/doc/bugs/proxy.py_utf8_troubles.mdwn b/doc/bugs/proxy.py_utf8_troubles.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a4e848102 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/proxy.py_utf8_troubles.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +when writing an external plugin using `proxy.py`, the getstate and setstate +functions don't accept unicode data: + + uncaught exception: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 25: ordinal not in range(128) + Traceback (most recent call last): + File "proxy.py", line 309, in run + self._in_fd, self._out_fd) + File "proxy.py", line 192, in handle_rpc + ret = self._dispatcher.dispatch(method, params) + File "proxy.py", line 84, in dispatch + return self._dispatch(method, params) + File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py", line 420, in _dispatch + return func(*params) + File "proxy.py", line 251, in hook_proxy + ret = function(self, *args) + File "/home/chrysn/git/ikiwiki-plugins//plugins/my_plugin", line 49, in data2html + proxy.setstate(kwargs['page'], 'meta', 'title', unicode_containing_umlauts) + File "proxy.py", line 291, in setstate + return self.rpc('setstate', page, id, key, value) + File "proxy.py", line 233, in rpc + *args, **kwargs) + File "proxy.py", line 178, in send_rpc + cmd, data)) + UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 25: ordinal not in range(128) + +the culprit is the last `_debug_fn` invocation in `send_rpc` (line 178), where +unicode data is format-fed into a string. while this could be circumvented by +making the formatting string a unicode string, that would cause trouble with +python3 and we'd just move the problem to the stderr writing later on; instead, +"`cmd, data))`" should become "`cmd, repr(data)))`" and everything is fine. +debug output doesn't look that pretty any more, but is safe. + +--[[chrysn]] |