extension new_glyph_layer (Typography) not using decoding properly

[me-kell]

Entering non-ascii characters raises a ValueError (see detailed description in https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/263246).
This (as explained there) is because Python environment as passed by Inkscape's extension mechanism has no PYTHONIOENCODING variable and Python wrongly guesses the encoding "cp0".

Proposed solution:

Use "sys.stdin.encoding" and if it is "cp0" or "None" use "locale.getpreferredencoding()" (see detailed explanation in https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/263246).

See patch in attachment

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Patch tested successfully on Windows XP, Inkscape trunk rev. 14495.

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Yay! Thanks, me-kell + jazzynico :)

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Patch doesn't work on OS X (tested with locale 'en_US.UTF-8'; Python 2.7.10) - Python tracebacks attached as text file (to avoid line breaks in normal comments).

[su_v (suv-lp)]

The attached modified version of the patch works for me (on osx).

[su_v (suv-lp)]

… and the diff between the two patches (in case it helps reviewing …).

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

New patch from ~suv in comment #6 tested successfully on Windows XP (32-bit), Inkscape trunk rev. 14718.
If nobody objects, I'm going to commit it soon.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Patch v2 also tested successfully on Xubuntu 15.10.
Committed in the trunk rev. 14722.

[Martin Owens (doctormo)]

These patches are already in 0.92.x