Public bug reported: pastebinit needs Unicode support to work. It would be nice if it tested for it and raised an error understandable to the average user.
$ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 pastebinit -v pastebinit v1.4 $ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 pastebinit -v pastebinit v1.4 leggewie@1001P:/etc$ LC_ALL=C pastebinit -v Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pastebinit", line 293, in <module> pastebind = preloadPastebins() File "/usr/bin/pastebinit", line 102, in preloadPastebins instance.read(filename) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/configparser.py", line 689, in read self._read(fp, filename) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/configparser.py", line 994, in _read for lineno, line in enumerate(fp, start=1): File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 167: ordinal not in range(128) ** Affects: pastebinit Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: pastebinit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: pastebinit Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1270359 Title: test locale for Unicode support To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pastebinit/+bug/1270359/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs