[Edit book]: Crash exporting image

[arspr]

Whenever I try to export an image (jpgs) through Right-click on Files Browser > "Export whatever.jpg" I get something like this:

calibre, version 1.29.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>UnicodeDecodeError</b>:'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xed in position 12: invalid continuation byte

calibre 1.29* [64bit] isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Windows-Vista-6.0.6002-SP2 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', 'Vista', '6.0.6002')
Python 2.7.5
Windows: ('Vista', '6.0.6002', 'SP2', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "M:\DVD Personal 55\Calibre\SourceCode\src\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\file_list.py", line 648, in export
  File "M:\DVD Personal 55\Calibre\SourceCode\src\calibre\gui2\__init__.py", line 757, in choose_save_file
  File "M:\DVD Personal 55\Calibre\SourceCode\src\calibre\gui2\__init__.py", line 638, in __init__
  File "ntpath.py", line 108, in join
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xed in position 12: invalid continuation byte

Editor trying to read a jpg as an unicode txt?

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every Friday.

 status fixreleased

[arspr (arspr)]

Hi Kovid, either I was really stupid and didn't test properly or this error has resurfaced:

calibre, version 1.37.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>UnicodeDecodeError</b>:'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xed in position 12: invalid continuation byte

calibre 1.37* [64bit] isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Windows-Vista-6.0.6002-SP2 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', 'Vista', '6.0.6002')
Python 2.7.5
Windows: ('Vista', '6.0.6002', 'SP2', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "M:\DVD Personal 55\Calibre\SourceCode\src\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\file_list.py", line 616, in export
  File "M:\DVD Personal 55\Calibre\SourceCode\src\calibre\gui2\__init__.py", line 760, in choose_save_file
  File "M:\DVD Personal 55\Calibre\SourceCode\src\calibre\gui2\__init__.py", line 635, in __init__
  File "ntpath.py", line 301, in expanduser
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xed in position 12: invalid continuation byte

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Sigh. Python's library functions on windows are all totally broken. I
have committed a fix.