Episodes with special characters

[phillipssc]

This is very much like the closed issue https://github.com/dbr/tvnamer/issues/16 but I have a recent version, 2.3 and upgrading to the latest was the fix for the closed issue. In my case, a returned episode title has the "é" character in it - which causes the script to fail.

The command is run through a script and tvnamer is launched as follows:

/usr/local/bin/tvnamer -b -m --force-move -d "/home/sean/video/TV/%(seriesname)s/Season %(seasonnumber)d" "Another Period S03E02.mp4" 2>&1 | tee -a "/tmp/Another Period S03E02.log"

####################
# Starting tvnamer
# Found 1 episode
####################
# Processing file: Another Period S03E02.mp4
# Detected series: Another Period (season: 3, episode: 2)
####################
Old filename: Another Period S03E02.mp4
New filename: Another Period - [03x02] - Séance.mp4
New path: /home/sean/temp/daaef588/Another Period - [03x02] - Séance.mp4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/tvnamer", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('tvnamer==2.3', 'console_scripts', 'tvnamer')()
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tvnamer/main.py", line 458, in main
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tvnamer/main.py", line 364, in tvnamer
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tvnamer/main.py", line 227, in processFile
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tvnamer/main.py", line 92, in doRenameFile
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tvnamer/utils.py", line 1088, in newPath
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/genericpath.py", line 37, in isfile
    st = os.stat(path)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 53: ordinal not in range(128)

The tvnamer command line in the script works flawlessly except for this one episode so far. Please let me know if you need any more info...

[bhorstmann]

I ran into this same issue. I managed to workaround it by editing the following line in my config file:

    "normalize_unicode_filenames": true,

This does a simple convert from é to e.

While I would prefer to have the unicode characters in my filenames, this was an acceptable workaround for me.

[dbr]

Hmm, could you test with the latest version 2.5 release? Don't recall if there was anything to do with the non-ASCII support changed since 2.3, but latest version appears to work for me, under both Python 2.7 and 3.7:

$ touch 'Another Period S03E02.mp4'
$ tvnamer Another\ Period\ S03E02.mp4
####################
# Starting tvnamer
# Found 1 episode
####################
# Processing file: Another Period S03E02.mp4
# Detected series: Another Period (season: 3, episode: 2)
TVDB Search Results:
1 -> Another Period [en] # http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=284219&lid=7 (default)
Automatically selecting only result
####################
Old filename: Another Period S03E02.mp4
New filename: Another Period - [03x02] - Séance.mp4
Rename?
([y]/n/a/q)
Renaming
New path: /Users/dbr/code/tvnamer/Another Period - [03x02] - Séance.mp4
rename /Users/dbr/code/tvnamer/Another Period S03E02.mp4 to /Users/dbr/code/tvnamer/Another Period - [03x02] - Séance.mp4

[lamahmud]

I've also noticed this issue with names with an apostrophe ' in it. Example is Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan which tvnamer fails to find on tvdb and when you force it with the --series-id= flag, it names it "Tom Clancy& # 39 ;s Jack Ryan" <-- I had to add spaces between the & and # and 39 because apparently this form properly translates that to an apostrophe.

[DJ73]

I noticed a similar issue with '.'

Example: Magnum P. I. was failed to be identified. It searched for Magnum P I and didn't find any results for some reason. Works fine if I force the series name

[dbr]

Closing old ticket, don't think the encoding issue should still be a problem (especially in latest v4.0-dev under Python 3 as none of the ASCII string code will exist any more)

Example: Magnum P. I. was failed to be identified. It searched for Magnum P I and didn't find any results for some reason. Works fine if I force the series name

This is a different issue - not sure if it's improved in the last year or so, but the TVDB API search is fairly basic, and can be confused by differing punctuation (or even things like & versus and). Not much tvnamer can do to work around this as a fix which might work for one show may break another