Re: Non Unicode chars in SMS text

[email protected] wrote:
> 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

I had a similar problem with reading phonebook entries in Hebrew. I 
followed the discussion here and did the translation in the code that 
reads the phonebook (under the assumption that a phone that uses 
different encoding than what I hard-coded in would have a different module).

See com_sk6100.py for the code details.
> 
> 
> 
> 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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   were the final words from the set of self-excluding sets. :-)


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