Agenda app not working due to unicode error (plus solution)

[LaurensBelgium]

Thank you for your amazing program which I am now using for quite some time. I noticed that in the agenda functionality was having difficulties in handling non ASCI characters. (see error log) This can be solved by adding support for string encoding in utf-8 by adding the following lines (see below). Afterwards the agenda functionality works normally.

%%%% add following code to screen.py file in the agenda folder %%%%%%

import sys reload(sys) sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")

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errorlog Traceback (most recent call last): File "./main.py", line 52, in InfoScreenApp().run() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/app.py", line 828, in run runTouchApp() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/base.py", line 487, in runT ouchApp EventLoop.window.mainloop() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/core/window/window_egl_rpi. py", line 89, in mainloop self._mainloop() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/core/window/window_egl_rpi. py", line 84, in _mainloop EventLoop.idle() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/base.py", line 327, in idle Clock.tick() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/clock.py", line 515, in tic k self._process_events() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/clock.py", line 647, in _pr ocess_events event.tick(self._last_tick, remove) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/clock.py", line 406, in tic k ret = callback(self._dt) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/animation.py", line 339, in _update self.stop(widget) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/animation.py", line 209, in stop self.dispatch('on_complete', widget) File "kivy/_event.pyx", line 714, in kivy._event.EventDispatcher.dispatch (ki vy/_event.c:7654) File "kivy/_event.pyx", line 1224, in kivy._event.EventObservers.dispatch (ki vy/_event.c:13497) File "kivy/_event.pyx", line 1148, in kivy._event.EventObservers._dispatch (k ivy/_event.c:13023) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/kivy/uix/screenmanager.py", line 413, in _on_complete self.screen_in.dispatch('on_enter') File "kivy/_event.pyx", line 718, in kivy._event.EventDispatcher.dispatch (ki vy/_event.c:7699) File "./screens/agenda/screen.py", line 112, in on_enter self.update() File "./screens/agenda/screen.py", line 136, in update self.drawCalendars() File "./screens/agenda/screen.py", line 309, in drawCalendars ev = CalendarItem(event=event) File "./screens/agenda/screen.py", line 52, in init self.formatEvent(kwargs["event"]) File "./screens/agenda/screen.py", line 75, in formatEvent evtime = "{} - {}".format(evtime, event["location"]) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

[elParaguayo]

Thanks. I'll take a look. It may be possible to fix this just by changing the line to:

evtime = u"{} - {}".format(evtime, event["location"])

but I'll try this when I get the chance.

[elParaguayo]

This should work now. I'm working on some other changes and will add to list for next release.