[mythtv-commits] Ticket #12642: Python binding socket UnicodeEncodeError

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#12642: Python binding socket UnicodeEncodeError
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:  wagnerrp
  angela.schmid@…        |
         Type:  Patch -  |     Status:  new
  Bug Fix                |
     Priority:  minor    |  Milestone:  unknown
    Component:           |    Version:  0.28-beta
  Bindings - Python      |   Keywords:  python binding mythproto socket
     Severity:  medium   |  send
Ticket locked:  0        |
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 When using Lossless Cut, i receive the following python error when the
 downloaded screenshot filename contains umlaut characters:

 {{{
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/lossless_cut/lossless_cut.py", line 1831, in <module>
     LOSSLESS_CUT.cut_video_file()
   File "/usr/share/lossless_cut/lossless_cut.py", line 513, in
 cut_video_file
     self._lossless_cut()
   File "/usr/share/lossless_cut/lossless_cut.py", line 1335, in
 _lossless_cut
     self.mythtvinterface.add_to_mythvideo()
   File "/usr/share/lossless_cut/importcode/mythtvinterface.py", line 1364,
 in add_to_mythvideo
     self.vid.importMetadata(self.metadata)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/dataheap.py", line
 1074, in importMetadata
     getattr(self, image.type).downloadFrom(image.url)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/dataheap.py", line
 104, in downloadFrom
     be.downloadTo(url, self.imagetype, self)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/mythproto.py", line
 726, in downloadTo
     'DOWNLOAD_FILE', url, storagegroup, filename))).\
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/mythproto.py", line
 155, in backendCommand
     return self._conn.command.backendCommand(data)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/connections.py",
 line 295, in backendCommand
     self.socket.sendheader(data)
   File "/usr/local/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'\xe4' in
 position 109: ordinal not in range(128)
 }}}

 Socket.send takes a string (not unicode).
 When Socket.send is called with an unicode string it tries to convert it
 with the ascii codec converter, resulting in an UnicodeEncodeError.

 Before calling Socket.send the data has to be converted to a non-unicode
 string (UTF-8 encoded).

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