[mythtv-commits] Ticket #12529: find_orphans.py can't delete orphaned recording entries with non-ascii charcters in any attribute

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#12529: find_orphans.py can't delete orphaned recording entries with non-ascii
charcters in any attribute
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     Reporter:  dekarl                |      Owner:  wagnerrp
         Type:  Bug Report - General  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  minor                 |  Milestone:  unknown
    Component:  Bindings - Python     |    Version:  Master Head
     Severity:  medium                |   Keywords:
Ticket locked:  0                     |
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 It appears as if deleteRecording (and related methods) wants to serialize
 the whole recording object instead of only channel id and start time. 0xDC
 being upper case U-Umlaut.
 {{{
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/var/lib/mythtv2/find_orphans.py", line 230, in <module>
     main()
   File "/var/lib/mythtv2/find_orphans.py", line 214, in main
     opt[1](opt[2])
   File "/var/lib/mythtv2/find_orphans.py", line 129, in delete_recs
     rec.delete(True, True)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/dataheap.py", line 363, in
 delete
     return self.getProgram().delete(force, rerecord)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/mythproto.py", line 960,
 in delete
     res = int(be.deleteRecording(self, force=force))
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/mythproto.py", line 656,
 in deleteRecording
     [command,program.toString()]))
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/mythproto.py", line 155,
 in backendCommand
     return self._conn.command.backendCommand(data)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/connections.py", line 295,
 in backendCommand
     self.socket.sendheader(data)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/utility/other.py", line
 392, in sendheader
     self.send(data, flags)
 UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xdc' in
 position 531: ordinal not in range(128)
 }}}
 From
 https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/master/mythtv/bindings/python/MythTV/mythproto.py#L646
 {{{
 return self.backendCommand(BACKEND_SEP.join([command,program.toString()]))
 }}}

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