[csw-maintainers] pkgcheck: error handling diacritical characters in paths

[Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński]

2012/6/27 Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org>:
> "Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:
>
>> 2012/6/26  <pfelecan at opencsw.org>:
>>> full_path = unicode(self.MakeAbsolutePath(file_path))
>>
>> Try replacing this with:
>>
>> full_path = unicode(self.MakeAbsolutePath(file_path), 'utf-8')
>>
>> If this works, feel free to submit the fix.
>
> Modified the file in ~/opencsw/.buildys/v2/lib/inspective_package.py and
> obtain:
>
>  File "/home/pfelecan/opencsw/.buildsys/v2/lib/python/inspective_package.py", line 94, in GetFilesMetadata
>    full_path = unicode(self.MakeAbsolutePath(file_path), 'utf-8')
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf1 in position 54: invalid continuation byte
>
> What's up doc?

Looks like the file name is not encoded in UTF-8. I'm not sure... what
should checkpkg do? It has to be encoded in unicode at the end of the
day, so what do we do?