Unicode error starting ide2py

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Start ide2py/main.py in a cloned rad2py folder

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The ide2py GUI should open normally. An error is shown in a widget and after 
accepting the dialog the program exits.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Last version from hg repository.
Python 2.6.5
wx 2.8.10.1

Please provide any additional information below.

Can be fixed by using a unicode literal in the line 187 of main.py

The error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./main.py", line 890, in <module>
    app = MainApp(redirect=False)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 7978, in __init__
    self._BootstrapApp()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 7552, in _BootstrapApp
    return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
  File "./main.py", line 866, in OnInit
    self.main_frame = PyAUIFrame(None)
  File "./main.py", line 187, in __init__
    self.statusbar.SetStatusText("2011 \xA9 Mariano Reingart", 2)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_windows.py", line 879, in SetStatusText
    return _windows_.StatusBar_SetStatusText(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa9 in position 5: 
unexpected code byte

Original issue reported on code.google.com by spame...@gmail.com on 27 Dec 2011 at 5:10

henry-ajere / rad2py

Unicode error starting ide2py #10