Bug#686361: Unable to load session ('ascii' codec can't encode byte 0xc2...)

[Pietro Battiston]

Package: gedit-plugins
Version: 3.4.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

I saved a session with the "session saver" plugin. When I start gedit, I see
the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/sessionsaver/__init__.py", line 67, in
do_activate
    self._insert_menu()
  File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/sessionsaver/__init__.py", line 118, in
_insert_menu
    self._update_session_menu()
  File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/sessionsaver/__init__.py", line 84, in
_update_session_menu
    _("Recover '%s' session") % session.name,
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2: ordinal
not in range(128)

.... and my saved session doesn't show up in the list.

The thing I don't understand is that my session is called "galeryremote",
without any strange character.

Anyway, there is a simple fix for this behaviour, which consists in patching
/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/sessionsaver/__init__.py in the following way:

84c84
<                                 _("Recover '%s' session") % session.name,
---
>                                 _("Recover '%s' session") %
str(session.name),



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gedit-plugins depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.12.1-2
ii  gedit                                        3.4.2-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.32.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.4.2-3
ii  gir1.2-gtksource-3.0                         3.4.2-1
ii  gir1.2-gucharmap-2.90                        1:3.4.1.1-2
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.30.0-1
ii  gir1.2-peas-1.0                              1.4.0-2
ii  gir1.2-vte-2.90                              1:0.32.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.13-35
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.2-2
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.2-2
ii  libffi5                                      3.0.10-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.26.1-1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.32.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.4.2-3
ii  libgtksourceview-3.0-0                       3.4.2-1
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.30.0-1
ii  libpeas-1.0-0                                1.4.0-2
ii  python                                       2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python2.7                                    2.7.3~rc2-2.1

gedit-plugins recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gedit-plugins suggests:
pn  zeitgeist-datahub  <none>

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