[tahoe-dev] [allmydata.org "Tahoe"] #534: "tahoe cp" command encoding issue

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#534: "tahoe cp" command encoding issue
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     Reporter:  francois           |       Owner:             
         Type:  defect             |      Status:  reopened   
     Priority:  minor              |   Milestone:  undecided  
    Component:  code-frontend-cli  |     Version:  1.2.0      
   Resolution:                     |    Keywords:  cp encoding
Launchpad_bug:                     |  
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Comment(by francois):

 Replying to [comment:8 warner]:

 > What do you think about the idea of using escaped binary strings instead
 of native UTF-8 in those filenames, i.e. removing the "coding=utf-8" line
 from the beginning of the file and using {{{"\xc3\x84rtonwall"}}} instead
 of embedding the A-with-umlaut in the string? I'm wondering if it might
 make our intentions clearer. At the moment we have a unicode name
 expressed as a non-unicode type (without the leading {{{u"}}}, that string
 is just a bytestring), and the casual observer might not realize that we
 intended to get the binary strings into the stuff on disk.

 Yes, this would have been a good idea but the encoding specification looks
 mandatory for both "\xc3\x84rtonwall" and "Ärtonwall".

 {{{
 exceptions.SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file
 /home/francois/dev/tahoe/src/allmydata/test/test_cli.py on line 567, but
 no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for
 details (test_cli.py, line 567)
 }}}

 Replying to [comment:9 warner]:

 > But, the buildbot is still indicating test failures: see
 http://allmydata.org/buildbot/waterfall . This time they're on dapper and
 feisty. That's really weird, I don't know what would cause those to fail
 but not the others.

 Unfortunately, I'm not able to reproduce those failures on my dapper and
 feisty virtual machines. Can you please try running the attached test
 script (test-unicode.py) on your machines ?

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