[Pywikipedia-l] Bug fix for userlib.User.__str__

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Fixed in r8588 (I hope so!)
However this class should be derived from Page class, shouldn't it?


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Von:     "Dr. Trigon" <dr.trigon at surfeu.ch>
An:      Pywikipedia discussion list <pywikipedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Datum:   19.09.2010 13:15
Betreff: [Pywikipedia-l] Bug fix for userlib.User.__str__

> Hello all
> 
> I recognized an issue, when executing the following code:
> 
> print userlib.User(pywikibot.getSite(), u'º_the_Bench_º')
> 
> results in
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "tests/dtbext_tester.py", line 279, in <module>
>      print userlib.User(pywikibot.getSite(), u'º_the_Bench_º')
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xba' in 
> position 13: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> The u'\xba' is assigned to u'º' which raises an UnicodeEncodeError.
> 
> By using the patch attached, which simply adds an
> '.encode(self.site().encoding())' to the string produced the issues
> is solved for me. And produces:
> 
> wikipedia:de:º_the_Bench_º
> 
> May be the 'self.site().encoding()' should or has to be replaced by
> another var or const. But the encoding to something like 'utf8' is
> essential as statet in [1].
> 
> Thanks a lot and greetings
> DrTrigon
> 
> 
> [1] http://wiki.python.org/moin/UnicodeEncodeError
> 
> 
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