[Python-apps-team] Bug#593665: gmail-notify: Unable to choose a language that has an Unicode character in its name

[ProgVal]

Package: gmail-notify
Version: 1.6.1.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

Hello,

After choosing "Fran��ais" as a language for gmail-notify, the programmed
crashed.
I ran it from the console, and it crashed immadiatly, without displaying any
window.

Here is the output :

progval at ProgVal-Debian-Squeeze:/usr/lib/gmail-notify$ gmail-notify
Gmail Notifier v1.6.1b (2010/08/20 08:50:20)
----------
xmllangs: XML file succesfully parsed
Configuration read (/home/progval/.notifier.conf)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./notifier.py", line 415, in <module>
    gmailnotifier = GmailNotify()
  File "./notifier.py", line 67, in __init__
    print "selected language: " + self.lang.get_name()
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position
23: ordinal not in range(128)



Best regards,
ProgVal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gmail-notify depends on:
ii  python                       2.6.5-11    interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-central               0.6.14+nmu2 register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-eggtrayicon           2.25.3-5    Python module to display icons in 
ii  python-gtk2                  2.17.0-4    Python bindings for the GTK+ widge

Versions of packages gmail-notify recommends:
ii  epiphany-browser [www-browser 2.30.2-3   Intuitive GNOME web browser
ii  iceweasel [www-browser]       3.5.11-1   Web browser based on Firefox
ii  links [www-browser]           2.3~pre1-1 Web browser running in text mode
ii  w3m [www-browser]             0.5.2-9    WWW browsable pager with excellent

gmail-notify suggests no packages.

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