[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1470: tahoe.cfg with UTF-8 BOM should be accepted

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#1470: tahoe.cfg with UTF-8 BOM should be accepted
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 Reporter:  davidsarah      |          Owner:  somebody
     Type:  defect          |         Status:  new
 Priority:  major           |      Milestone:  soon
Component:  code            |        Version:  1.8.2
 Keywords:  unicode config  |  Launchpad Bug:
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 {{{tahoe.cfg}}} is supposed to be encoded in UTF-8. Most editors on
 Windows save UTF-8 files with an initial Byte Order Mark, but that causes
 an error on starting the node:

 {{{
 C:\tahoe\furry>bin\tahoe start
 STARTING 'C:\Documents and Settings\David-Sarah\.tahoe'
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-
 packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\application\app.py", li
 ne 631, in run
     runApp(config)
   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-
 packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\scripts\twistd.py", lin
 e 23, in runApp
     _SomeApplicationRunner(config).run()
   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-
 packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\application\app.py", li
 ne 374, in run
     self.application = self.createOrGetApplication()
   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-
 packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\application\app.py", li
 ne 439, in createOrGetApplication
     application = getApplication(self.config, passphrase)
 --- <exception caught here> ---
   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-
 packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\application\app.py", li
 ne 450, in getApplication
     application = service.loadApplication(filename, style, passphrase)
   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-
 packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\application\service.py"
 , line 400, in loadApplication
     application = sob.loadValueFromFile(filename, 'application',
 passphrase)
   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-
 packages\twisted-10.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\twisted\persisted\sob.py", line
  210, in loadValueFromFile
     exec fileObj in d, d
   File "tahoe-client.tac", line 10, in <module>
     c = client.Client()
   File "c:\tahoe\furry\src\allmydata\client.py", line 133, in __init__
     node.Node.__init__(self, basedir)
   File "c:\tahoe\furry\src\allmydata\node.py", line 73, in __init__
     self.read_config()
   File "c:\tahoe\furry\src\allmydata\node.py", line 122, in read_config
     self.config.read([os.path.join(self.basedir, "tahoe.cfg")])
   File "C:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 297, in read
     self._read(fp, filename)
   File "C:\Python27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 504, in _read
     raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
 ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
 file: C:\Documents and Settings\David-Sarah\.tahoe\tahoe.cfg, line: 1
 '\xef\xbb\xbf# -*- mode: conf; coding: utf-8 -*-\n'

 Failed to load application: File contains no section headers.
 file: C:\Documents and Settings\David-Sarah\.tahoe\tahoe.cfg, line: 1
 '\xef\xbb\xbf# -*- mode: conf; coding: utf-8 -*-\n'
 }}}

 This may also apply to other configuration files.

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Ticket URL: <http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1470>
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