Gajim crashes with Unicode home
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gajim (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have cyrillic username and cyrillic home path. Gajim crashes on startup with
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "gajim.py", line 155, in <module>
common.
File "/usr/share/
self._load()
File "/usr/share/
mod = _origimport(head, globals, locals)
File "/usr/share/
gajimpaths = ConfigPaths()
File "/usr/share/
base = os.getenv(
File "/usr/lib/
return (userhome + path[i:]) or '/'
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)
Please update to a recent version of Gajim. Version 1.0+ uses python3, which should fix the issue.