Exaile

exaile --help crashes for Russian locale

Bug #1154420 reported by Sergey Basalaev
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Exaile
Fix Released
Low
Dustin Spicuzza
Exaile 3.3.2

Bug Description

Probably affects other locales as well.

Reproducible on version 3.3.

$ exaile --help

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/exaile/exaile.py", line 68, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/exaile/exaile.py", line 65, in main
    exaile = main.Exaile()
  File "/usr/lib/exaile/xl/main.py", line 83, in __init__
    (self.options, self.args) = self.get_options().parse_args()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 1399, in parse_args
    stop = self._process_args(largs, rargs, values)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 1439, in _process_args
    self._process_long_opt(rargs, values)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 1514, in _process_long_opt
    option.process(opt, value, values, self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 788, in process
    self.action, self.dest, opt, value, values, parser)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 810, in take_action
    parser.print_help()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 1669, in print_help
    file.write(self.format_help().encode(encoding, "replace"))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 1649, in format_help
    result.append(self.format_option_help(formatter))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 1636, in format_option_help
    return "".join(result[:-1])
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Related branches

lp:exaile/3.3.x
lp:exaile/3.4.x
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Sergey Basalaev (sbasalaev) wrote :

Works fine with C or EN locale

Mathias Brodala (mathbr)
Changed in exaile:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)
Changed in exaile:
milestone: none → 3.3.2
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Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside) wrote :

I've got this duplicated on my machine, but haven't been able to find a fix for it yet. It seems to be a common problem for optparse to have unicode errors.

See http://<email address hidden>/msg07227.html, and https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-May/065458.html

Changed in exaile:
assignee: nobody → Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside) wrote :

As far as I can tell, there isn't a good way to fix this in Python 2.x. It no longer crashes, but will display a lot of gibberish on the terminal for some locales. It's not clear to me whether the terminal can be convinced to display anything else.

Tested using "LANGUAGE=ru_RU LANG=ru_RU LC_ALL=ru_RU ./exaile --help" after installing a Russian language pack using Kubuntu 13.10. Committed as r4407 @ trunk and r4336 @ 3.3.x.

If someone else has a better way of fixing this, please post a patch.

Changed in exaile:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)
Changed in exaile:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Bernd Dietzel (1-launchpad-net-theregrunner-com) wrote :

Had the same problem with

pitivi --help

i modified the file /usr/lib/python2.7/optparse.py

from

file.write(self.format_help().encode(encoding, "replace"))

to

file.write(self.format_help().decode(encoding, "replace"))

after that --help works

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