Unhandeled exception

[Andrew Riley]

calibre, version 7.11.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>UnicodeEncodeError</b>:'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udef2' in position 49: surrogates not allowed

calibre 7.11 embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.11.5
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
EXE path: C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Gather KFX-ZIP (from KFX Input) (2, 11, 0) && DeDRM (7, 1, 0) && Package KFX (from KFX Input) (2, 11, 0) && KFX metadata reader (from KFX Input) (2, 11, 0) && From KFX (2, 11, 0) && KFX Input (2, 11, 0) && Set KFX metadata (from KFX Output) (2, 8, 0) && KFX Output (2, 8, 0) && Kindle Collections (1, 7, 29) && Obok DeDRM (7, 1, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre\gui2\library\views.py", line 1688, in _debounce_book_display
  File "calibre\gui2\book_details.py", line 1507, in show_data
  File "calibre\gui2\book_details.py", line 1127, in show_data
  File "calibre\gui2\book_details.py", line 302, in render_html
  File "calibre\gui2\book_details.py", line 383, in render_data
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\book\render.py", line 300, in mi_to_html
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\book\render.py", line 98, in render_author_link
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\book\render.py", line 91, in author_search_href
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\search_internet.py", line 67, in url_for_author_search
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\search_internet.py", line 63, in url_for
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\search_internet.py", line 63, in <dictcomp>
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\search_internet.py", line 59, in specialised_quote
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\search_internet.py", line 51, in qquote
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udef2' in position 49: surrogates not allowed

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

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