[Python-apps-team] Bug#811571: ocrfeeder: Unicode characters break exports

[Douglas Calvert]

Package: ocrfeeder
Version: 0.8.1-2
Severity: normal

Exporting is aborted if tesseract identifies any unicode character. Sample output:



Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ocrfeeder/studio/studioBuilder.py", line 298, in exportDialog
    self.EXPORT_FORMATS[format][1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ocrfeeder/studio/studioBuilder.py", line 281, in exportToFormat
    name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ocrfeeder/studio/widgetModeler.py", line 606, in exportPagesWithGenerator
    document_generator.save()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ocrfeeder/feeder/documentGeneration.py", line 221, in save
    file.write(pages[i])
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2014' in position 1263: ordinal not in range(128)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages ocrfeeder depends on:
ii  cuneiform             1.1.0+dfsg-5+b2
ii  ghostscript           9.16~dfsg-2
ii  gir1.2-goocanvas-2.0  2.0.2-2
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0        3.18.6-1
ii  gir1.2-gtkspell3-3.0  3.0.7-2
ii  gocr                  0.49-2
ii  iso-codes             3.64-1
ii  ocrad                 0.24-1
ii  python                2.7.11-1
ii  python-enchant        1.6.6-2
ii  python-gi             3.18.2-2
ii  python-lxml           3.5.0-1
ii  python-pil            3.0.0-1
ii  python-reportlab      3.2.0-1
ii  python-sane           2.8.2-1+b1
ii  tesseract-ocr         3.04.00-5+b1

Versions of packages ocrfeeder recommends:
ii  unpaper  6.1-1
ii  yelp     3.16.1-1

ocrfeeder suggests no packages.

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