[Scribus] cdd_cover.py Traceback

[Petr Vaněk]

On Friday 15 of October 2004 20:24, fredd wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:22:35 +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke
>
> <janulrich.hasecke at web.de> wrote:
> > While playing with scripts, I get this error while executing the script
> > http://fdubuy.free.fr/scribus/cddb_cover.py
> >
> > Exception in Tkinter callback
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1345, in __call__
> >     return self.func(*args)
> >   File "/home/juh/cddb_cover.py", line 123, in get_device
> >    
> > self.build_cover(self.ent.get(),self.numbering.get(),self.ttime.get())
> > File "/home/juh/cddb_cover.py", line 227, in build_cover
> >     SetText(album, b2)
> > Exception: Fehler: Falsches Argument! Aufruf:setText(unicodetext [,
> > objectname])
>
> You're right, there seems to be a problem with accents. Unfortunately
> most of my CD are in english so without accents, so I did not find
> this bug before.
> python_cddb returns a string which is not in unicode format, and
> Scribus expects an unicode string.
> I'll correct this. In the meantime, you should be able to use the
> script with CDs without accents :)

there was a bug with accented chars handling in the SetText() procedure.
It's encouraged to use: 

SetText(unicode(yourText, encoding), objectname)

so e.g. from the bug:
SetText(unicode(album, 'utf8'), b2)

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