#1493: wxgui About GRASS fails with UnicodeDecodeError
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Reporter: marisn | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: wxGUI | Version: svn-releasebranch64
Keywords: | Platform: MSWindows 7
Cpu: Unspecified |
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WinGRASS-6.4.SVN-r49260-1 on Windows 7 Help->About GRASS:
{{{
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Program Files/GRASS
6.4.SVN/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 614, in OnAboutGRASS
win = AboutWindow(self)
File "C:\Program Files\GRASS
6.4.SVN\etc\wxpython\gui_modules\ghelp.py", line 547, in
__init__
(_("Contributors"), self._pageContributors()),
File "C:\Program Files\GRASS
6.4.SVN\etc\wxpython\gui_modules\ghelp.py", line 702, in
_pageContributors
label = item))
File "C:\Program Files\GRASS 6.4.SVN\Python25\lib\site-
packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode\wx\_controls.py", line 1136, in
__init__
_controls_.StaticText_swiginit(self,_controls_.new_StaticTex
t(*args, **kwargs))
File "C:\Program Files\GRASS
6.4.SVN\Python25\lib\encodings\cp1257.py", line 15, in
decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,errors,decoding_table)
UnicodeDecodeError
:
'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 19:
character maps to <undefined>
}}}
Replying to [comment:1 glynn]:
> Replying to [ticket:1493 marisn]:
>
> This has already been fixed in 6.5 (r47387) and 7.0 (r47386), but has
not been back-ported to 6.4.