[Python-modules-team] Bug#611923: Bug#611923: python-xdg: wrong behaviour breaking apps on non-supported locale

[Piotr Ożarowski]

[Yann Dirson, 2011-02-03]
> In [6]: print "%s" % e.getName()
> ------> print("%s" % e.getName())
> Échecs

please do not use ipython to test encoding related issues, it has
problems...

> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc9' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

.encode('utf-8')?
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