Package: monkeysign Version: 2.x Severity: normal I wanted to build the manpage only for Monkeysign’s CLI version, so I removed `monkeyscan:monkeysign.gtkui:MonkeysignScanUi.parser` from ‘setup.cfg' and ran `setup.py build_manpage`. That failed with:
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 55: > ordinal not in range(128) An encoding problem didn’t make any sense to me, so I tried to track the issue down. Turns out it doesn’t occur when PyGTK is imported into the build process, either directly through 'gtkui.py' or via 'msg_exception.py'. The explanation for this behaviour is that PyGTK sets Python’s default encoding to UTF-8. This is GNOME bug 132040 from back in 2004: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132040 So what exactly causes the above error? It is the accent in your surname, anarcat, that causes manpage writing to fail with ASCII encoding ;-). The best way to fix this would in my opinion be using an unicode string for `author` in 'setup.py', but Disutils seem not to respect that. I used the following patch, which works: > --- a/monkeysign/documentation.py > +++ b/monkeysign/documentation.py > @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ class build_manpage(Command): > def _write_footer(self, parser): > ret = [] > appname = self.distribution.get_name() > - author = '%s <%s>' % (self.distribution.get_author(), > + author = '%s <%s>' % (self.distribution.get_author().decode('utf-8'), > self.distribution.get_author_email()) > ret.append(('.SH AUTHORS\n.B %s\nwas written by %s.\n' > % (self._markup(appname), self._markup(author)))) > @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class build_manpage(Command): > path = os.path.join(self.output, parser.prog + '.1') > self.announce('writing man page to %s' % path, 2) > stream = open(path, 'w') > - stream.write(''.join(manpage)) > + stream.write(''.join(manpage).encode('utf-8')) > stream.close() It might, however, not be the most comprehensive way to deal with the issue: The whole process of generating manpages uses a mixture of ordinary and unicode strings and might need some review with respect to encoding issues. Best regards, Felix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
