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   John Sullivan Samat K Jain

   @samatjain Hm, the backup tool is failing with a unicode error, but not the same as the one in the README. "'ascii' cod…

   about 4 months ago from status.wjsullivan.net at Boston, Massachusetts, United States
   • Samat K Jain

     Thanks for the report—could you pastebin the error and command line you used?

     about 3 months ago
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     John Sullivan

     http://paste.debian.net/156342/ has both. This is on a Debian sid system.

     about 3 months ago
   • Christopher Allan Webber

     Decode early, encode late!

     about 3 months ago
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     Kevin Granade Christopher Allan Webber

     @cwebber hmm, so does that more or less mean, "Implement codecs at the border."?

     about 3 months ago
   • Christopher Allan Webber Kevin Granade

     Yes. http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/

     about 3 months ago
   • Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn Christopher Allan Webber

     Yes! And don't tolerate encoded/serialized values in the interior--only the canonical type. Also applies to other types than unicode.

     about 3 months ago
   • Samat K Jain Python , Christopher Allan Webber

     I'm using from __future__ import unicode_literals; that should eliminate most decode early/encode late issues, no? !Python

     about 3 months ago
   • Marc Rintsch Python , Samat K Jain

     Not really. Just effects the decode of *literals*. Basically it just changes which string literals you have to prefix with u or b.

     about 3 months ago
   • Samat K Jain

     Blah! The line causing the problem was a fix for Unicode issues on Debian testing… I think there was a bug in lxml/requests somewhere

     about 3 months ago
   • Samat K Jain

     Pushed a hack till I've time to diagnose further. Now works w/ your stream. git pull and try it? http://identi.ca/url/66658387

     
     about 3 months ago