Displaycal startup issue

[Klaas Wiedijk]

Good day everyone,

Since an update (PCLinuxOS) Displaycal won’t start anymore, here’s the according message:

“UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xb2′ in position 80: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py”, line 16762, in <lambda>
lambda event: event.callable(*event.args, **event.kw) )
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/DisplayCAL/DisplayCAL.py”, line 15543, in setup_frame
app.frame = MainFrame(self.worker)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/DisplayCAL/DisplayCAL.py”, line 1383, in __init__
self.setup_language()
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/DisplayCAL/DisplayCAL.py”, line 1938, in setup_language
if cal == getcfg(“calibration.file”, False) and getcfg(“settings.changed”):
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/DisplayCAL/config.py”, line 1334, in getcfg
(not os.path.isabs(value) or not os.path.exists(value))):
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/genericpath.py”, line 18, in exists
os.stat(path)
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xb2′ in position 80: ordinal not in range(128)”

Anyone? Thanks in advance!, cheers, Klaas.

[Florian Höch]

It seems you are using a non-unicode build of python (very uncommon! u’\xb2′ is superset 2, or the ‘squared’ symbol, btw). That is not supported.

[Klaas Wiedijk]

Thanks Florian, I’ll put it in the PCLinuxOS forums.

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