Hi,

Thanks it's working!
But is it "normal" for a string coming out of a module (nntplib) to crash when passed to print or write?

I'm just asking to know if I should open a bug report or not :)

I'm also wondering which strings should be re-encoded using the surrogateescape parameter and which should not.. I guess I could reencode them all and it wouldn't cause any problems?

Laurent

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:12:20 +0000, MRAB wrote:
On 28/02/2011 01:31, Laurent Duchesne wrote:
Hi,

I'm using python 3.2 and got the following error:

nntpClient = nntplib.NNTP_SSL(...)
nntpClient.group("alt.binaries.cd.lossless")
nntpClient.over((534157,534157))
... 'subject': 'Myl\udce8ne Farmer - Anamorphosee (Japan Edition) 1995
[02/41] "Back.jpg" yEnc (1/3)' ...
overview = nntpClient.over((534157,534157))
print(overview[1][0][1]['subject'])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udce8' in
position 3: surrogates not allowed

I'm not sure if I should report this as a bug in nntplib or if I'm doing
something wrong.

Note that I get the same error if I try to write this data to a file:

h = open("output.txt", "a")
h.write(overview[1][0][1]['subject'])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udce8' in
position 3: surrogates not allowed

It's looks like the subject was originally encoded as Latin-1 (or
similar) (b'Myl\xe8ne Farmer - Anamorphosee (Japan Edition) 1995
[02/41] "Back.jpg" yEnc (1/3)') but has been decoded as UTF-8 with
"surrogateescape" passed as the "errors" parameter.

You can get the "correct" Unicode by encoding as UTF-8 with
"surrogateescape" and then decoding as Latin-1:

    overview[1][0][1]['subject'].encode("utf-8",
"surrogateescape").decode("latin-1")

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