Samuel, did you reproduce this? I tried with a non-ascii character filename but it worked fine. However I'm on Windows 7, not XP.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenLP Core, which is subscribed to OpenLP. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1012110 Title: pptviewlib does not accept unicode filename Status in OpenLP - Worship Presentation Software: New Bug description: If PowerPoint Viewer is being used by presentation plugin, loading a presentation file whose filename/path contains unicode (non-ASCII) characters causes a traceback: --- Exception Traceback --- Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\OpenLP_Code\release-1.9.9\build\pyi.win32\OpenLP\outPYZ1.pyz\openlp.core.lib.mediamanageritem", line 342, in onFileClick File "D:\OpenLP_Code\release-1.9.9\build\pyi.win32\OpenLP\outPYZ1.pyz\openlp.core.lib.mediamanageritem", line 396, in validateAndLoad File "D:\OpenLP_Code\release-1.9.9\build\pyi.win32\OpenLP\outPYZ1.pyz\openlp.plugins.presentations.lib.mediaitem", line 194, in loadList File "D:\OpenLP_Code\release-1.9.9\build\pyi.win32\OpenLP\outPYZ1.pyz\openlp.plugins.presentations.lib.pptviewcontroller", line 128, in load_presentation UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 60-61: ordinal not in range(128) Line 128 in load_presentation in pptviewcontroller uses str() on the filepath. This is due to a limitation of the C/C++ pptviewlib. It's OpenPPT function takes a *filename argument of type char. Thus it is unable to deal with unicode strings. see http://www.support.openlp.org/issues/724 [WinXP SP3, OpenLP 1.9.9] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openlp/+bug/1012110/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openlp-core Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openlp-core More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
