UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes

[Marco Rodrigues]

The current version on repository give me this error:

TESTCASE:
1- Run entertainer
2- Don't touch it and wait... after some time this traceback comes (it comes from backend while scanning?)

$ entertainer
Entertainer backend starting...
Exception in thread IndexerThread:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/threading.py", line 486, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/entertainerlib/backend/components/mediacache/indexer_thread.py", line 68, in run
    cache.addDirectory(element)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/entertainerlib/backend/components/mediacache/music_cache.py", line 129, in addDirectory
    self.addFile(os.path.join(root, name))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/entertainerlib/backend/components/mediacache/music_cache.py", line 65, in addFile
    filename = filename.encode('utf8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 56-58: invalid data

Linux Distribution: Ubuntu Intrepid
Processor (32/64-bit): 32-bit
Python Version: 2.5.2

[Paul Hummer (rockstar)]

This has to do with your specific environment. Entertainer needs to deal with it better, yes, but I don't think we can cover all the encodings. Maybe we should just standardize on unicode for everything.