Extended Ascii Character Error

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Python bindings for Chromaprint acoustic fingerprinting and the Acoustid Web service

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Extended Ascii Character Error #29

Closed ChuckTSI closed 8 years ago

ChuckTSI commented 8 years ago

Linux: Errors thrown if filename contains extended ASCII python aidmatch.py "Björk - Tondeleyo.mp3"

Traceback (most recent call last): File "aidmatch.py", line 51, in aidmatch(sys.argv[1]) File "aidmatch.py", line 46, in aidmatch print('%s - %s' % (artist, title)) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

sampsyo commented 8 years ago

Thanks! A couple of notes you might find interesting:

This was a problem with the demo script's print statement, not the library itself, so you're good to go already if you just want to use the Python interface.
This happened because your system has an ASCII locale, which you probably don't want in general. I'd suggest updating your LC_ALL or LANG environment variables to a UTF-8 locale.
I fixed this for Python 2; a fix for Python 3 is surprisingly hard.