Re: [orca-list] Bug#613086: New test, new situation

[Mario Lang <mlang delysid org>]

Jason White <jason jasonjgw net> writes:

> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <mengualjeanphi free fr> wrote:
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/orca/braille.py", line 356, in __init__
> >     self.rawLine = string.decode("UTF-8").strip("\n")
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
> >     return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 10: invalid continuation byte
> >
> > generate braille results:
> > BRAILLE LINE:  ''
> >      VISIBLE:  '', cursor=0
>
> Are you using a UTF-8 language setting?

Looking at the backtrace and remembering my rusty python,
I think $LANG should be irrelevant here.
It looks like Python is trying to decode an UTF-8
string and fails because the string is encoded invalid.

Maybe Orca is just missing a try/catch block to correctly catch utf-8
decode errors?

The error happens at src/orca/braille.py:356 (relative to orca source
directory).

The code looks something like:

        # The uncontracted string for the line.
        #
        self.rawLine = string.decode("UTF-8").strip("\n")

Maybe something like:

        # The uncontracted string for the line.
        #
        try:
            self.rawLine = string.decode("UTF-8").strip("\n")
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            pass

Could "fix" this problem.

It would be interesting to see the actual string which fails though.
So its probably more useful to change the except-block
to something which prints the string in question to the debug log.

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