[Python-apps-team] Bug#491851: spe: Cannot save workspace with Notes in Unicode

[Philippe Teuwen]

Package: spe
Version: 0.8.4.h-1
Severity: normal

Hello,
It is possible to type Notes in unicode in the Notes tab per sourcefile
or in the global Notes tab (lower part of the GUI) but when saving I get
the error:
    Spe warning: could not save workspace options in /home/phil/.spe/swifi.sws
    'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in position 247: 
        ordinal not in range(128)
Note that a side error is to print those messages in the shell as "input"
-> if I press enter in the shell to get the prompt back it says
  File "<input>", line 1
      Spe warning: could not save workspace options in /home/phil/.spe/swifi.sws
                    ^
                    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Phil

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages spe depends on:
ii  kiki                         0.5.6-3     tool for python regular expression
ii  pychecker                    0.8.17-9    Finds common bugs in python source
ii  python                       2.5.2-1     An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central               0.6.7       register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-wxglade               0.6.3-0.1   GUI designer written in Python wit
ii  python-wxgtk2.6              2.6.3.2.2-2 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t
ii  python-wxgtk2.8              2.8.7.1-1   wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t
ii  winpdb                       1.3.8-1     Platform independent Python debugg

Versions of packages spe recommends:
ii  wx2.8-doc                     2.8.7.1-1  wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t

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