Bug report #15256

Unicode problem with plugin description

Added by Pedro Venâncio almost 8 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Severe/Regression
Assignee:Jürgen Fischer
Category:Python plugins
Affected QGIS version:master Regression?:No
Operating System: Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:23192

Description

I'm getting an error with some plugins (eg NTv2 Datum Transformations) from the nightly build of 30/06/2016, because of the accents that are in metadata.txt files:
https://github.com/NaturalGIS/ntv2_transformations/blob/master/metadata.txt ("Venâncio" / "Krüger")

An error occurred during execution of following code:
import pyplugin_installer

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 10-11: ordinal not in range(128)

Python version:
2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 18:03:54)
[GCC 4.8.2]

QGIS version:
2.15.0-Master 'Master', 5f66276
An error occurred during execution of following code:
pyplugin_installer.initPluginInstaller()

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in
NameError: name 'pyplugin_installer' is not defined

Python version:
2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 18:03:54)
[GCC 4.8.2]

QGIS version:
2.15.0-Master 'Master', 5f66276

Removing all the accents from metadata.txt, it stop giving problems.

I'm facing with this both on Linux and Windows, and I've just tested a clean Linux LiveUSB, and confirm the problem.

Can this be related to 4b16c64

217.jpg (217 KB) Giovanni Manghi, 2016-07-12 03:44 AM

Associated revisions

Revision 5b2646cf
Added by Martin Dobias over 7 years ago

Fix problems with plugins using unicode characters (fixes #15256)

regression introduced during python3 porting

Revision 43fa88e7
Added by Martin Dobias over 7 years ago

Followup 5b2646c to fix tests (refs #15256)

Revision b643364e
Added by Martin Dobias over 7 years ago

followup 43fa88e fix python3 (refs #15256)

History

#1 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 8 years ago

now I see this issue on Windows. On Linux (KDE) no python error, but this plugins do not stick as activated once closed and reopened QGIS.

#2 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 8 years ago

moreover the information panel of plugins looks very odd (font size), seen on both Windows and Linux, see attached image.

#3 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 8 years ago

just made a clean installation of Linux and QGIS 2.16 and I can see the issue also on this platform.

#4 Updated by Andre Jesus over 7 years ago

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

moreover the information panel of plugins looks very odd (font size), seen on both Windows and Linux, see attached image.

Not only that plugin. All plugin description have those huge font sizes

#5 Updated by Martin Landa over 7 years ago

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

now I see this issue on Windows. On Linux (KDE) no python error, but this plugins do not stick as activated once closed and reopened QGIS.

I can confirm this bug also on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04 + QGIS 2.16). When I remove all accents from metadata.txt file the error disappears.

#6 Updated by Martin Dobias over 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

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