apertium-tolk gets stuck when a non-ASCII character is typed in

[Mikel L. Forcada]

Binary package hint: apertium-tolk

The bug is maybe related to apertium-dbus, and ultimately to the limitations of character handling in python.
Apertium-tolk in Ubuntu 8.01 launches nicely but whenever one types in a non-ASCII character it produces an error. This is the error produced when one types "ç" (c with cedilla) as in:

comme ci comme ça

org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.UnicodeEncodeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/service.py", line 696, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/share/apertium/dbus-1/mode.py", line 61, in translate
    return translate.translate(self.mode, options, text)
  File "/usr/share/apertium/dbus-1/mode.py", line 46, in translate
    out, err = call(add_options([self.cmd, pair], options), text)
  File "/usr/share/apertium/dbus-1/command_line.py", line 13, in call
    child_in.write(_in)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 26: ordinal not in range(128)

[Jimmy O'Regan (jimregan)]

Reassign to apertium-dbus