test locale for Unicode support

[Rolf Leggewie]

pastebinit needs Unicode support to work. It would be nice if it tested for it and raised an error understandable to the average user.

$ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 pastebinit -v
pastebinit v1.4
$ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 pastebinit -v
pastebinit v1.4
leggewie@1001P:/etc$ LC_ALL=C pastebinit -v
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pastebinit", line 293, in <module>
    pastebind = preloadPastebins()
  File "/usr/bin/pastebinit", line 102, in preloadPastebins
    instance.read(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/configparser.py", line 689, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/configparser.py", line 994, in _read
    for lineno, line in enumerate(fp, start=1):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 167: ordinal not in range(128)

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

I pushed two commits that should improve this quite a bit.

1) pastebinit will now ignore any pastebin configuration file it can't read because of encoding errors (in this case, the Chinese Ubuntu pastebin contained utf-8 characters for the submit button).
2) pastebinit will now read input files in raw byte mode and not attempt decoding, so it can submit utf-8 encoded files even if it's not itself running under an utf-8 locale

I won't however add a specific check for an utf-8 locale because while that's easy to do on Linux, it's not so much easy when you also need to support Windows, MacOS, ...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pastebinit - 1.4-2ubuntu1

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pastebinit (1.4-2ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - Don't build-depend on python-support.

pastebinit (1.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * patches:
    ~ update upstream to r205. Fix unicode problem. LP: #1270359
      This essentially gives us upstream release 1.4.1
    ~ increase timeout to 15s to account for bad networks
  * watch: only check for 2-level (major.minor) upstream releases
  * drop preinst script as obsolete

pastebinit (1.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Bart Martens ]
  * update watch file

  [ Rolf Leggewie ]
  * new upstream release 1.4
    - upstream bugfixes
      ~ crash in create_connection(). LP: #1032221
      ~ point shebang to python3. LP: #988468
      ~ allow calling pastebin by basename. Closes: #705979, LP: #977331
      ~ allow pasting several files at once. Closes: #662242
    - control: bump python to python3 in run-time dependencies
               remove python-configobj from run-time dependencies
    - drop all debian-patches as obsolete
  * control:
    - drop obsolete DMUA field
    - update to standard version 3.9.5. No further changes.
  * copyright: update upstream and my copyright to 2014
 -- Stephane Graber <email address hidden> Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:52:07 -0500