GTG crashed on adding new task (unicode)

[Muraki Kazutaka]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/liblarch/processqueue.py", line 42, in process_queue
    func(*action[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/liblarch/__init__.py", line 248, in __emit
    func(node_id,path)
  File "/usr/share/gtg/GTG/plugins/notification_area/notification_area.py", line 200, in __on_task_added
    self.__tasks_menu.add(tid, (task.get_due_date(), title), menu_item)
  File "/usr/share/gtg/GTG/plugins/notification_area/notification_area.py", line 327, in add
    self.sorted_keys.sort()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 28-29: invalid continuation byte

[Izidor Matušov (izidor)]

It looks like a unicode problem. However, I have troubles with reproducing it. Could you tell me, do you have any special characters in your task title? I tried to reproduce it with russian alphabet, without a problem.

[Martin Lukeš (martin-meridius)]

Hi,
I have the same problem with version 0.2.9. The error is almost the same:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/liblarch/processqueue.py", line 42, in process_queue
    func(*action[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/liblarch/__init__.py", line 248, in __emit
    func(node_id,path)
  File "/usr/share/gtg/GTG/plugins/notification_area/notification_area.py", line 200, in __on_task_added
    self.__tasks_menu.add(tid, (task.get_due_date(), title), menu_item)
  File "/usr/share/gtg/GTG/plugins/notification_area/notification_area.py", line 327, in add
    self.sorted_keys.sort()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 29: invalid continuation byte

How to reproduce:
Create new task and add it sub-task writing:
- ovládání testů by mělo jít pouze myší

The app crashes as soon as you hit Enter.

[Izidor Matušov (izidor)]

Martin> thanks for the reproducer. I made a patch, waiting for a review.

If it is a blocker for you, you can apply the patch yourself by opening /usr/share/gtg/GTG/core/task.py and adding two lines:

<code>
        if isinstance(title, str):
            title = title.decode('utf8')
</code>

after line

<code>
         old_title = self.title
</code>

[Martin Lukeš (martin-meridius)]

Your patch is working great Izidor, thank you!