UnicodeDecodeError when building Scripts menu

connor

I just updated RF from 3.3b => 3.3 — I get the following traceback when starting up RoboFont:

  File "lib/doodleDelegate.pyc", line 95, in sendEvent_
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/vanilla/dialogs.py", line 72, in completionHandler_
    self._resultCallback(self._result)
  File "lib/UI/pathPopUpButton.pyc", line 45, in _choosePath
  File "lib/UI/preferences/preferencesPythonEditor.pyc", line 71, in pathChooserCallback
  File "lib/scripting/setScriptMainMenu.pyc", line 45, in setScriptMainMenu
  File "lib/UI/fileBrowser.pyc", line 777, in getMenu
  File "lib/UI/fileBrowser.pyc", line 779, in getMenu
  File "lib/UI/fileBrowser.pyc", line 779, in getMenu
  File "lib/UI/fileBrowser.pyc", line 775, in getMenu
  File "lib/UI/fileBrowser.pyc", line 758, in __iter__
  File "lib/UI/fileBrowser.pyc", line 745, in getChild_
  File "lib/UI/fileBrowser.pyc", line 639, in __init__
  File "lib/UI/fileBrowser.pyc", line 652, in buildNaming
  File "codecs.pyc", line 322, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 3339: invalid continuation byte

I changed the several files names that had non-ascii characters but it still breaks. Any idea of what to do besides unlink the scripts folder?

Thanks,
C

connor

I pretty much used this script while going through my whole script folder. The folder pretty big and very unorganized at the moment, but I'll send you an email with that. Thanks for all the help, Frederik!

frederik

mm, very strange

I still dont get it :(

what kind of script did you run? (to reveal those two files)

can you share the content of your scripting folder? (also possible off-forum)

RoboFont supports this:

The file name of the script can contain non ascii characters
The script can contain non ascii characters
The menu short cuts can also contain non ascii characters

connor

Sorry, I should have been more specific! When I ran a script to check for utf-8 encoded files the only two that threw an error were these: the Autohint.py and GlyphProofer from House's GitHub.

frederik

I cannot reproduce it with Autohint.py.

Could you share 'the another random file'?

connor

Very weird, the files causing the problem was the Autohint.py file from the Adobe Type Github and the another random file file. Thanks though!

C

connor

Sorry for the late reply! @gferreira, yes it was working perfectly fine with 3.3b. I am going to just try and go through all the files and test that they're utf-8 properly encoded. I thought I knew which one was causing the issue but...I was wrong. I'll be back with more info soon:)

gferreira

hello @connor,

was it working before the update to 3.3?
are you sure the file is saved with utf-8 encoding?

thanks for any additional info

frederik

I cannot reproduce it with a file containing non-ascii or emoji.

Could you share such a file (or only the header, the first five lines)

thanks

UNSOLVED UnicodeDecodeError when building Scripts menu