Bug 85311 – wammu-.0,8 does not (still) work on unicode locales

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Axel Dyks 2005-03-15 00:47:15 UTC]

> locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
> wammu
!!! now connect to the phone !!!
--------------- System information ----------------
Python       2.3.4
wxPython     2.4.2.4u
Wammu        0.8
python-gammu 0.7
Gammu        1.00.04
locales      en_US (utf)
-------------------- Traceback --------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Wammu/Main.py", line 1443, in PhoneConnect
    self.TogglePhoneMenus(True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Wammu/Main.py", line 415, in TogglePhoneMenus
    self.OnTimer()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Wammu/Main.py", line 369, in OnTimer
    self.SetStatusText(_('Bat: %d %% (%s), Sig: %d %%, Time: %s') % (b['BatteryPercent'], power, s['SignalPercent'], d.strftime('%c')), 1)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)
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Axel

P. S.: I'll send a link to this bug to [e-mail] 
P. P. S.: Does anybody know , why "locale.py" prefers env-variable
LANGUAGE over LANG, LC_*, ...?  I thought that only openoffice is
relying on "LANGUAGE"

[Comment 1 Michal Čihař 2005-03-15 01:09:51 UTC]

See http://bugs.cihar.com/5

[Comment 2 Axel Dyks 2005-03-15 01:24:32 UTC]

Ah, yes!
Setting LC_TIME to "en_US.UTF-8" works.

BTW: Current month ("March"="M

[Comment 3 Axel Dyks 2005-03-15 01:24:32 UTC]

Ah, yes!
Setting LC_TIME to "en_US.UTF-8" works.

BTW: Current month ("March"="März" in German) is the only one
  that leads into trouble. The others do not contain
  "umlaute" in their (german) names. :-)

Should I mark the bug as "RESOLVED UPSTREAM" (next version)?

Cheers,
Axel

[Comment 4 Michal Čihař 2005-03-15 04:00:21 UTC]

That sounds reasonable to me.

[Comment 5 Axel Dyks 2005-03-15 06:01:42 UTC]

Will be fixed in next version according to info from author.