[mythtv-users] jamu: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 27: ordinal not in range(128)

Brian J. Murrell brian at interlinx.bc.ca
Thu Jan 14 12:30:49 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 07:07 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: 
> File "/usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/jamu.py", line 2234, in _downloadURL
>     target_socket = open(OutputFileName, "wb")
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 27: ordinal not in range(128)

FWIW, the OutputFileName being used here is:

/video/MythVideo/Fanart/Pokémon_fanart.jpg

Funny how a filename can already be on the filesystem with a character
that "open()" thinks is not legal.  Seems a "too" restrictive character
set is being used or something along those lines.

b.
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