UnicodeEncodeError when writing non-ASCII characters in a tweet

[ghost]

First of all congratulations for this project.

Maybe I'm missing something here because the README file claims that it has UTF-8 support but I get the following error and traceback when trying to write non-ASCII characters in a tweet (e.g, í, á, é).

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/tyrs", line 16, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tyrs/tyrs.py", line 66, in main
    init_tyrs()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tyrs/tyrs.py", line 71, in init_tyrs
    init_interface()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tyrs/tyrs.py", line 88, in init_interface
    user_interface = Interface()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tyrs/interface.py", line 49, in __init__
    self.main_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tyrs/interface.py", line 62, in main_loop
    self.loop.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/main_loop.py", line 274, in run
    self.screen.run_wrapper(self._run)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/raw_display.py", line 237, in run_wrapper
    return fn()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/main_loop.py", line 307, in _run
    self.event_loop.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/main_loop.py", line 682, in run
    self._loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/main_loop.py", line 720, in _loop
    self._watch_files[fd]()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/main_loop.py", line 358, in _update
    self.process_input(keys)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/main_loop.py", line 447, in process_input
    k = self._topmost_widget.keypress(self.screen_size, k)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/container.py", line 629, in keypress
    return self.footer.keypress((maxcol,),key)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/container.py", line 1390, in keypress
    key = w.keypress( (mc,)+size[1:], key )
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tyrs/editor.py", line 73, in keypress
    urwid.Edit.keypress(self, size, key)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/widget.py", line 1036, in keypress
    self.insert_text( key )
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/widget.py", line 972, in insert_text
    text = self._normalize_to_caption(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urwid/widget.py", line 988, in _normalize_to_caption
    return text.encode('ascii') # follow python2's implicit conversion
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

It seems to be an issue with urwid.

[Nic0]

Hi,

First of all congratulations for this project. Thank you!

Are you using the latest release, or the latest git? This should be related to this issue https://github.com/Nic0/tyrs/issues/112 Here the quick fixe: https://github.com/Nic0/tyrs/commit/95b76d8b80d67037b20ea3a52a85d69954ea1130

It was a problem with urwid 0.9.x -> 1.0.x I guess I haven't done any release since, but I should indeed.

Thanks for your feedback.

[ghost]

The latest git solved the problem, thanks for responding so quickly!