Silently fails to open non-utf8 files
Bug #1316134 reported by
Ivo Anjo
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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UberWriter (moved to github!) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The attached file is iso8859-15 encoded, and it seems uberwriter expects utf-8 only.
That's not really a problem, but at currently uberwriter silently fails, just giving
WARNING:uberwriter: load_file() 'Error Reading File: UnicodeDecodeEr
on the shell, which is obviously very user-unfriendly.
The original file that triggered this issue was authored by a non-technical friend on notepad on windows (which in 2014 seems to still NOT default to utf-8...), and she was very confused by not getting any kind of feedback on why her file was not opening.
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