[GRASS-dev] Re: GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1493: wxgui About GRASS fails with UnicodeDecodeError

GRASS GIS GRASS GIS developer
1

This looks like the same problem I was hitting with v.in.dxf.

Michael
______________________________
C. Michael Barton
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
USA

voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
fax: 480-965-7671(SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC)
www: http://csdc.asu.edu, http://shesc.asu.edu
    http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

On Nov 17, 2011, at 3:56 AM, grass-dev-request@lists.osgeo.org wrote:

Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:46:40 -0000
From: "GRASS GIS" <trac@osgeo.org>
Subject: [GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1493: wxgui About GRASS fails with
       UnicodeDecodeError
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Message-ID: <040.96589a7c33b650975e03389ce3e1c63c@osgeo.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

#1493: wxgui About GRASS fails with UnicodeDecodeError
-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------
Reporter: marisn | Owner: grass-dev@???
    Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: wxGUI | Version: svn-releasebranch64
Keywords: | Platform: MSWindows 7
     Cpu: Unspecified |
-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------
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>
}}}