UnicodeEncodeError

[thomas-mc-work]

I got this error after track seven has finished for the cd https://musicbrainz.org/release/8a76dde5-287d-4cb2-88e0-5c7a621c654c:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/rip", line 37, in <module>
    sys.exit(main.main(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/morituri/rip/main.py", line 40, in main
    ret = c.parse(argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/morituri/rip/main.py", line 118, in parse
    logcommand.LogCommand.parse(self, argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/morituri/common/logcommand.py", line 62, in parse
    command.Command.parse(self, argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/morituri/extern/command/command.py", line 401, in parse
    return self.subCommands[command].parse(args[1:])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/morituri/common/logcommand.py", line 62, in parse
    command.Command.parse(self, argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/morituri/extern/command/command.py", line 401, in parse
    return self.subCommands[command].parse(args[1:])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/morituri/common/logcommand.py", line 62, in parse
    command.Command.parse(self, argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/morituri/extern/command/command.py", line 363, in parse
    ret = self.do(args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/morituri/rip/cd.py", line 174, in do
    self.doCommand()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/morituri/rip/cd.py", line 482, in doCommand
    ripIfNotRipped(i + 1)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/morituri/rip/cd.py", line 376, in ripIfNotRipped
    if os.path.exists(path):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/genericpath.py", line 18, in exists
    os.stat(path)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2026' in position 92: ordinal not in range(128)

[JoeLametta]

Hi, thanks for the bug report.
This one looks like it's a locale issue (maybe your system doesn't use an UTF-8 locale): could run the following command and post its output?

locale

[thomas-mc-work]

Output of locale is:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

[JoeLametta]

Output of locale is:
Thanks.

What happens if you try ripping that CD again with whipper running it like this?

PYTHONIOENCODING='utf8' $rip_invocation_here

Obviously first replace $rip_invocation_here with the actual command.

EDIT: If that fails also try this one:

LANGUAGE="en_US.UTF-8" $rip_invocation_here

[thomas-mc-work]

PYTHONIOENCODING='utf8' $rip_invocation_here

This one made it working.

[JoeLametta]

This one made it working.

This one needs to be investigated but, right now, please keep using that workaround.

[thomas-mc-work]

Oh no, I was wrong, the locale info wasn't right. I'm starting the rip command in a script that is being invoked from an udev rule. When i run locale within the script then i get this output:

LANG=
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

So i need to investigate what environment i've got when getting started by udev.

[thomas-mc-work]

So that means whipper is working right, so we can close this. Thank you anyway!

[JoeLametta]

So that means whipper is working right, so we can close this. Thank you anyway!

You're welcome! Thanks for the extensive feedback: that's a relief...
Anyway, in the future, whipper will be rewritten as a Python 3 project.