Non Unicode chars in SMS text

Ran into this when I was testing the SMS code: some ISP insert cutesy non-unicode characters into their ads which are appended to outgoing mail messages, some of which are SMS messages.  As a result, BitPim raised an exception while trying to save these messages.  Any suggestions as how to handle this?

Thanks,

-Joe Pham



An unexpected exception has occurred.
Please see the help for details on what to do.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "f:\My Documents\cell_apps\bitpim\gui.py", line 1256, in OnCallback
    event()
  File "f:\My Documents\cell_apps\bitpim\gui.py", line 122, in __call__
    return apply(self.cb, self.args, self.kwargs)
  File "f:\My Documents\cell_apps\bitpim\gui.py", line 79, in __call__
    apply(self.method, self.args+args, d)
  File "f:\My Documents\cell_apps\bitpim\gui.py", line 942, in OnDataGetPhoneResults
    self.smswidget.populatefs(results)
  File "f:\My Documents\cell_apps\bitpim\sms_tab.py", line 253, in populatefs
    self.__save_to_db(dict.get(self.__data_key, {}))
  File "f:\My Documents\cell_apps\bitpim\sms_tab.py", line 250, in __save_to_db
    self.__main_window.database.savemajordict(self.__data_key, db_rr)
  File "F:\My Documents\cell_apps\bitpim\database.py", line 263, in _transactionwrapper
    return method(*args, **kwargs)
  File "F:\My Documents\cell_apps\bitpim\database.py", line 507, in savemajordict
    self.sql(" ".join(cmd), [timestamp]+[record[r] for r in rk])
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 152: ordinal not in range(128)



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