From: chrysn Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:16:11 +0000 (+0100) Subject: pythonproxy utf8 trouble again X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/3c0e26fe0e9dbde5c60459d6a2a5405b66ad0d44 pythonproxy utf8 trouble again --- diff --git a/doc/bugs/pythonproxy-utf8_again.mdwn b/doc/bugs/pythonproxy-utf8_again.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..96b060003 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/pythonproxy-utf8_again.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[!template id=gitbranch branch=chrysn/more-proxy-utf8-fail author="[[chrysn]]"]] + +the recently introduced fixes for [[crashes in the python proxy even if disabled]] +caused the typical python2 implicit conversion failures ("'ascii' codec +can't...") on my debian sid system -- to fix it, i had to revert commit 154c4ea9e. + +i did not dig down all the way to the xml / xmlrpc modules, but my impression +is that some module changed its behavior between stable and sid and now +generates `unicode` strings instead of `str`. + +a [[patch]] to allow both versions by inspecting the types and en-/decoding on +demand should work both for anarcat's and my case. i did not test the python3 +version, but i'm pretty sure it was already broken after the abovementioned +patch. + +-- [[chrysn]] diff --git a/doc/users/chrysn/interests.mdwn b/doc/users/chrysn/interests.mdwn index aafe7e4a2..cd7acf3d6 100644 --- a/doc/users/chrysn/interests.mdwn +++ b/doc/users/chrysn/interests.mdwn @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ these are the topics [[chrysn]] is or was interested in inside ikiwiki: * [[bugs/methodResponse in add__95__plugins]] * [[bugs/preprocessing loop control too tight]] * [[bugs/proxy.py utf8 troubles]] +* [[bugs/pythonproxy-utf8 again]] * [[bugs/Underscores in links don't appear]] * [[bugs/unicode encoded urls and recentchanges]] * [[bugs/wrong link in recentchanges when reverting an ikiwiki outside git root]]