[aur-general] Compiling with UTF-8 symbols in build path

[Paul Weingardt]

Am 20.12.2012 11:51, schrieb Martti Kühne:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Paul Weingardt
> <spam.nobody44 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I just got a comment on my git-cola package, stating that the
>> compilation fails, when the path to the PKGBUILD contains a UTF-8 symbol
>> like the Euro "€" symbol.
>>
>> Example:
>> The PKGBUILD is located under "/home/paul/€uro/". "cd" into that
>> directory and execute makepkg.
>>
>> I am really sure, that this is an upstream problem (I guess it is even
>> an issue in python2-spinx) and I can't solve it. Would someone take a
>> look at it please?
>>
>> Here is the error message:
>>
>> Exception occurred:
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sphinx/environment.py", line 758, in read_doc
>>     pub.set_source(None, src_path.encode(fs_encoding))
>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 25: ordinal not in range(128)
>>
>> Just tryed it out: fs_encoding is "UTF-8" on my machine.
>> And help is appreciated.
>>
>> nobody44
>
> hello there.
>
> Pyhton2's handling of unicode strings is retarded. Either use python3
> which does it right or look at [1] which should make things clear for
> you with examples. I doubt encode() there is the right function call,
> as I can prove in a local test easily. [2]
>
> cheers!
> mar77i
>
> [1] http://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html
> [2] http://pastebin.ca/2295197
Thanks for the help. So there is nothing I can do about it, because I am
not the author of git-cola nor the author of python2-sphinx.

I will post a short comment and everything should be fine.

Thanks again!