[[!template id=gitbranch branch=anarcat/dev/proxy-utf8-fail author="[[anarcat]]"]] ikiwiki 3.20130904.1~bpo70+1 rebuilding the whole wiki: [[!format txt """ anarcat@marcos:ikiwiki*$ sudo ikisite changesetup wiki.anarc.at --rebuild Subroutine import redefined at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/translinks.pm line 19. Subroutine getsetup redefined at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/translinks.pm line 29. Subroutine pagetemplate redefined at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/translinks.pm line 38. Subroutine otherlanguagesloop redefined at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/translinks.pm line 51. Use of uninitialized value $body in split at /usr/share/perl5/Text/MultiMarkdown.pm line 1131. uncaught exception: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 289: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins/proxy.py", line 309, in run self._in_fd, self._out_fd) File "/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins/proxy.py", line 192, in handle_rpc ret = self._dispatcher.dispatch(method, params) File "/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins/proxy.py", line 84, in dispatch return self._dispatch(method, params) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py", line 420, in _dispatch return func(*params) File "/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins/proxy.py", line 253, in hook_proxy "{0} hook `{1}' returned: [{2}]".format(type, name, ret)) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 289: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins/rst", line 86, in proxy.run() File "/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins/proxy.py", line 317, in run self.error('uncaught exception: {0}\n{1}'.format(e, tb)) File "/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins/proxy.py", line 298, in error self.rpc('error', msg) File "/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins/proxy.py", line 233, in rpc *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins/proxy.py", line 173, in send_rpc raise GoingDown() proxy.py.GoingDown error: ikiwiki failed """]] \xe9 is "é" in latin1, it may be the last letter of my name. no clue how it got there. suspecting this is related to the fix in [[bugs/proxy.py_utf8_troubles]], since this was not happening before the upgrade from squeeze. --[[anarcat]] > Ooops... turns out the plugin *was* enabled, through the `rst` plugin. After disabling it, the crash is gone, but one page isn't rendered anymore: > > removing art/histoireinternet/index.html, no longer built by art/histoireinternet.rst > > Here is that source file: http://anarc.at/art/histoireinternet.rst - and it seems encoded properly: > > $ curl -s http://anarc.at/art/histoireinternet.rst | iconv -f utf8 -t latin1 | iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 > /dev/null > $ > > So I am not sure what is going on here... --[[anarcat]] >> Python is decoding what it receives from IkiWiki using the default `ascii` >> codec. To match IkiWiki's "all source text is UTF-8" assumption, the >> Python proxy should explicitly decode incoming text from bytes >> (`str`) to `unicode` using the `utf8` codec instead. >> >> Python's conservative default is "`ascii`, regardless of locale" - >> this minimizes the chance of silently incorrect decoding, but >> unfortunately also maximizes the chance of crashing. --[[smcv]] > > > Right, I know that. The trick is to find the rabbit hole. :P > > > > > > And I found it. With my dev/proxy-utf8-fail, this doesn't fail anymore. Yay, a [[patch]] ready for commit! --[[anarcat]] > > > > I don't see that branch in your git repo, could you repost it please? > > > > (I'm trying to review some of the pending patches.) --[[smcv]]