purple-remote must encode its output

[Serge Matveenko]

Binary package hint: libpurple-bin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2

Error when redirecting output from purple-remote to file or other program.

$ purple-remote getstatusmessage > 1.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/purple-remote", line 239, in <module>
    print output
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u266b' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Status message was "♫"

[Ronny Cardona (rcart)]

I can't reproduce the bug using the same version of libpurple-bin and assigning the same status message. Can someone else please try to reproduce it?

[Serge Matveenko (lig)]

Ronny, what Python version do you use? Is it Python 3.x?

[Ronny Cardona (rcart)]

Serge, No, it's not. I'm using Python 2.6.6

[Jani Monoses (jani)]

Serge I cannot reproduce this either.
The character looks garbled if I change the terminal character set to non-UTF8, but it is written correctly to the file.

Is the file you redirect to on a partition mounted with non-UTF character encoding? If you don't redirect you get the right ouput on the screen?

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

I haven't recreated this either. Unsubscribing sponsors for now until we understand under which condition this problem occurs

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