There are two changes to be made here: - First, checkbox/variable.py, the UnicodeVariable class now uses the 'ascii' encoder by default (decoder in this case I think), so if the string to be converted to unicode contains non-ascii characters, the call to unicode will throw an exception, which was the originally observed problem. Fix is to explicitly specify the encoding to use while reading the string. I used utf-8.
- Second, when loading strings into a GtkTextBuffer, it expects utf8 encoding, otherwise it "eats" characters and the string gets truncated. So we check to see if the passed text is a unicode instance and, if so, it gets explicitly re-encoded as utf8, thus keeping the TextBuffer happy. I'll link a branch with these fixes in a couple of minutes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/833747 Title: Test descriptions with non-ascii characters cause tests to not be run, backend to crash To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/checkbox/+bug/833747/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
