UnicodeEncodeError

[dbrgn]

Now playing Cumbianauts Incoming by Cumbia Cosmonauts from the album Cumbia Bestial! (2010).
(8tracks:Llévame al infinito)> 
Reporting song...
(8tracks:Llévame al infinito)> fav_track
Track favorited.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/orochi", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('orochi==0.0.1', 'console_scripts', 'orochi')()
  File "/home/danilo/Projects/orochi/orochi/client.py", line 730, in main
    client.cmdloop()
  File "/home/danilo/Projects/orochi/orochi/client.py", line 167, in cmdloop
    super(Client, self).cmdloop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/cmd.py", line 142, in cmdloop
    stop = self.onecmd(line)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/cmd.py", line 221, in onecmd
    return func(arg)
  File "/home/danilo/Projects/orochi/orochi/client.py", line 360, in do_play
    i.cmdloop()
  File "/home/danilo/Projects/orochi/orochi/client.py", line 491, in cmdloop
    super(PlayCommand, self).cmdloop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/cmd.py", line 130, in cmdloop
    line = raw_input(self.prompt)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)

[realitychemist]

I'm getting the same errors. It seems to happen whenever Orochi tries to display some text (usually in the title of the mix) that doesn't fit in the ascii encoding. Easily reproducable by doing a search for something like (8tracks)> search russian, which, after successfully displaying 7 results, gives:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/orochi", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('orochi==0.1.2', 'console_scripts', 'orochi')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/orochi/client.py", line 732, in main
    client.cmdloop()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/orochi/client.py", line 169, in cmdloop
    super(Client, self).cmdloop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/cmd.py", line 142, in cmdloop
    stop = self.onecmd(line)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/cmd.py", line 221, in onecmd
    return func(arg)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/orochi/client.py", line 210, in do_search
    self.display_search_results(mixes, s)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/orochi/client.py", line 457, in display_search_results
    print(prefix + wrapper.fill(mix_info))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 9-10: ordinal not in range(128)

I've tried fixing the problem myself, but I'm too unfamiliar with either this project or character encoding in python in general to make any headway.

[dbrgn]

@realitychemist that doesn't occur in my case. Is your terminal set to UTF8? Can you post your export | egrep "LC|LANG" output?

$ export | egrep "LC|LANG"
declare -x LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
declare -x LC_ALL=""
declare -x LC_COLLATE="C"
declare -x LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

[realitychemist]

That's a setting I've not come across before, and in my case it outputs the rather confusing line:
declare -x LANG="" and nothing else. I found the encoding settings for my terminal using the gui and set it to UTF-8 that way, but the output of the egrep didn't change. I'm now getting 8 results on the (8tracks)> search russian query, but then it still fails with the same UnicodeEncodeError.

Addendum1: The result of a locale charmap command is ANSI_X3.4-1968
Addendum2: I set the language on my terminal by:

export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
export LANG="$LC_ALL"

and now everything is working fine! Thank you for pointing me in this direction.

[dbrgn]

@realitychemist yes, that was the correct way :) You can also put the export lines in your .bashr or .profile files, so that they're always exported automatically.

Maybe I should add a check to Orochi to make sure that users have a terminal set to some unicode encoding.