eyeD3 crashes when genre is assigned a non pure ascii string

[Pierre Fischer]

Every time you try to launch eyeD3 with a parameter of the option "-G" which is not a pure ascii string, you get a crash.

For instance :
<eyeD3 -G "Hello" file> works perfectly
but
<eyeD3 -G "Bébé" file> makes eyeD3 crash!

The problem seems to be in the method called parse of the class Genre. This method may have a string asa parameter. This string can be encoded different ways depending on where it comes from : either according to the encoding scheme of the tag being read from a file, or according to the LOCALE when it is provided as the parameter of the -G option. The parse method needs a utf-8 encoded string and tries to encode its parameter accordingly. This causes an automatic decode operation using ascii as the default encoding scheme : if the string contains character values not in the ascii character set, the program crashes!!

May be it would be better if the parameter of parse could be provided as a unicode object. This object should be built by the
caller using a decode operation with the appropriate encoding scheme at the time this scheme is known.... That's just a suggestion..

Additional information :
Tests made under Ubuntu 11.04 with the following package configuration :
eyed3:
  Installé : 0.6.17-1build1
  Candidat : 0.6.17-1build1
 Table de version :
 *** 0.6.17-1build1 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
python-eyed3:
  Installé : 0.6.17-1build1
  Candidat : 0.6.17-1build1
 Table de version :
 *** 0.6.17-1build1 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Alexandre Detiste (alexandre-detiste)]

please try again with the last version that uses python3