alacarte crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in save(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 307-315: ordinal not in range(128)

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Alacarte crashed on quantal, and killed gnome-panel also. A traceback is attached.

Something like this should fix the problem:

--- a/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py 2012-08-27 07:08:52.000000000 +0400
+++ b/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py 2012-09-27 20:09:41.526015518 +0400
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@

     def save(self):
         fd = open(self.path, 'w')
- fd.write(self.dom.toprettyxml())
+ fd.write(self.dom.toprettyxml().encode('utf-8'))
         fd.close()

     def restoreToSystem(self):

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: alacarte 3.5.5-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.23-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 27 19:45:49 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/alacarte
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python -OOt /usr/bin/alacarte
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/alacarte']
SourcePackage: alacarte
Title: alacarte crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in save(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 307-315: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-23 (4 days ago)
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jasper St. Pierre (jstpierre)]

Pushed a more comprehensive fix to git master. Thanks! Not sure what flags I'm supposed to set in Launchpad.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Thank you! There was another crash caused by this one (for me) — bug 1057603, I guess it can now be marked as Fix Committed too?

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Fixed in ≥ 3.7.90.