Bug 3966 - calibre crashes when a file with non ascii characters is on the command line
Summary: calibre crashes when a file with non ascii characters is on the command line
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomas Kindl
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Keywords: Triaged
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Reported: 2011-12-31 12:01 CET by Pascal Terjan
Modified: 2012-05-12 00:30 CEST (History)
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Description Pascal Terjan 2011-12-31 12:01:54 CET 
[pterjan@coin ~]$ calibre Arthur\ C.\ Clarke\ -\ LÅil\ du\ Temps\ -\ LOdyssee\ du\ Temps\ n1.epub 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 227, in initialize
    self.initialize_db()
  File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 208, in initialize_db
    self.initialize_db_stage2(db, None)
  File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 184, in initialize_db_stage2
    self.start_gui(db)
  File "/usr/lib64/calibre/calibre/gui2/main.py", line 147, in start_gui
    os.path.isdir(p)]
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/genericpath.py", line 41, in isdir
    st = os.stat(s)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 20-21: ordinal not in range(128)
Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2011-12-31 16:23:09 CET 
Hi, thanks for reporting this bug.
Assigned to the package maintainer.

(I have found nothing upstream)
(Please set the status to 'assigned' if you are working on it)

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
Assignee: bugsquad => supp

Comment 2 Pascal Terjan 2012-05-12 00:30:11 CEST 
Current cauldron version no longer crashes

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
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