Unicode characters in QR code displays below error

[giorgos83b]

{-260: {1: {'dob': 'xxxx-xx-xx', 'nam': {'fn': Traceback (most recent call last): File "vacdec.py", line 19, in pprint.pprint(cbor2.loads(decoded.value[2])) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 53, in pprint printer.pprint(object) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 139, in pprint self._format(object, self._stream, 0, 0, {}, 0) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 167, in _format p(self, object, stream, indent, allowance, context, level + 1) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 189, in _pprint_dict context, level) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 346, in _format_dict_items context, level) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 167, in _format p(self, object, stream, indent, allowance, context, level + 1) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 189, in _pprint_dict context, level) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 346, in _format_dict_items context, level) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 167, in _format p(self, object, stream, indent, allowance, context, level + 1) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 189, in _pprint_dict context, level) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 346, in _format_dict_items context, level) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 167, in _format p(self, object, stream, indent, allowance, context, level + 1) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 189, in _pprint_dict context, level) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 346, in _format_dict_items context, level) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\pprint.py", line 176, in _format stream.write(rep) File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0] UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 1-9: character maps to

[hannob]

I have a special character in my name and I can read my vaccine cert just fine.

I think this is a problem with lack of utf-8 support in Python on Windows. I have no idea what I can do about that. Any proposal?

[packmad]

It's a problem of pprint

https://stackoverflow.com/a/10883893/6489438

[Cap-JaTu]

Fixed in https://github.com/hannob/vacdec/pull/9

See my fork: https://github.com/HQJaTu/vacdec/tree/signature-verification

There I specifically use Swedish sample data with name of Oscar Lövström to demonstrate problem being solved.

[hannob]

From what I can see this is ultimately an issue with the environment not supporting utf-8. I'll close this for now, if anyone has a proposal how to workaround this in a simple way I'm happy to merge that. However I'm not gonna merge the solution from the linked stackoverflow post as that's excessively complicated and I want to keep this script simple.

[Cap-JaTu]

Original code: pprint.pprint(cbor2.loads(decoded.value[2]))

My fork's code handling both vaccinations with time-of-day and UTF-8 characters:

cbor = cbor2.loads(cose_msg.payload)
json.dumps(cbor, indent=2, default=str, ensure_ascii=False)

• UTF-8 fix is at ensure_ascii
• Datetime fix is at default=str