RE: Problem with UNICODE filenames still not fixed :(

> The best fix is for someone to provide a patch.  We use
> Unicode for the wxPython side of things.  Python is dual
> mode being in Unicode mode if you give unicode strings
> else text mode.
> 
> The function SHGetFolderPath is supposed to return a
> unicode string if appropriate according to the doc.
> 
> This should only be a line or two of code to fix.  But it
> requires someone with an affected system to work on.

I am able to reproduce by using a path with non-ascii characters.

There are three problems that prevent bitpim from running from the command
line.
1) com_brew.py. line 935.
            print 'setting path to',bitpim_path
needs to be deleted or made unicode safe as print does not work with unicode
strings. A quick hack is to change it to 
            print 'setting path to',`bitpim_path`
This results in the unicode part of the string being printed as raw hex in
the console output.


2) A bug in sqlite3 (bug #1206) that prevents the database from being
opened. It is fixed in 3.2.7. I downloaded the new version of aspw
(3.2.7-r1) which I assume uses this new sqlite version and this fixed the
problem.


3) In guiwidgets.py, the line:
                if not os.access(item.filename, os.F_OK):
and in common.py (207)
     execfile(filename, dict, dict)
both fail with:

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

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\wx-2.6-msw-unicode\wx\_core.py", line
13266, in <lambda>
    lambda event: event.callable(*event.args, **event.kw) )
  File "C:\projects\bitpim\gui.py", line 1299, in
OnPopulateEverythingFromDisk
    self.wallpaperwidget.getfromfs(results)
  File "C:\projects\bitpim\wallpaper.py", line 448, in getfromfs
    return self.genericgetfromfs(result, None, 'wallpaper-index',
self.CURRENTFILEVERSION)
  File "C:\projects\bitpim\guiwidgets.py", line 1345, in genericgetfromfs
    common.readversionedindexfile(os.path.join(self.thedir, file), d,
self.versionupgrade, currentversion)
  File "C:\projects\bitpim\common.py", line 207, in readversionedindexfile
    execfile(filename, dict, dict)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 54-61:
ordinal not in range(128)

I tried filename.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding()) but this inserted '?'s
in the string which did not work.
All I can think of to fix this is to avoid using these functions by finding
an alternative which is not too hard.
Joe, I can work on a fix if you want some help.

Simon



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