xtf-converter: Error on Windows - UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec ... line 70 about xbox-tools HOT 3 CLOSED

Changed the print statement on line 70 to

print("<!-- Decoding symbol " + str(c) + ": \"" + symbol + "\" -->")

doesn't print the symbol being converted in the svg comments but not really needed.

More could be removed - ": ""

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For reference, the error is in:

The problem is that @kaosengr is using the Windows CMD prompt, which is an ASCII terminal. Here's how I reproduced it:

$ python2 -c "print(u'\xa0')" 
$ PYTHONIOENCODING=ascii python2 -c "print(u'\xa0')"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
$ PYTHONIOENCODING=ascii python3 -c "print(u'\xa0')"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xa0' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

The backslash-removal simply broke printing of symbol, hence you worked around the crash by accident. A better workaround is to remove that line altogether.

However, to fix this problem for everyone, we should add an error handler for this line, which catches the error and simply doesn't print the symbol part (symbol) of the message, if the terminal can't print it.
I don't think I'll fix it myself - you found your workaround anyway (which is easy enough) and it's a rare issue (most terminals will be some form of unicode).

This issue remains open until the problem is fixed in the code.

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Closed, because project moved to https://github.com/XboxDev/xtf-converter

An equivalent issue has been created on the new upstream.

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