[sword-devel] python3 , StrongsGreek and unicodeDecodeError

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Hi Pierre,

I had similar problems with our Java bindings.  Java was unforgiving
with invalid UTF-8 characters, as well.  Ultimately we should fix any
invalid UTF-8 characters in our modules and encode them correctly, but
my solution was, in the bindings code, to call:

assureValidUTF8()

before returning results to Java.  This call is available from SWORD's
utilstr.h

Hope this helps a bit,

Troy


On 6/16/19 12:02 PM, pierre amadio wrote:
> Hi there !
>
> Playing with the python3 Sword module I hit a problem that I did not
> have with python2 when dealing with Strongs definition such as G1140
> (daimonion). It looks like the 'æ' character is causing problem.
>
> This example works with python2, but generate an error when ran wiht python3:
>
> ##########
> import Sword
> library = Sword.SWMgr()
> target=library.getModule("StrongsGreek")
> vk=Sword.SWKey("1140")
> target.setKey(vk)
> strongEntry=target.renderText().getRawData()
> ###########
>
>   File "/usr/local/sword/python3/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/Sword.py",
> line 128, in getRawData
>     def getRawData(self): return _Sword.SWBuf_getRawData(self)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe6 in position
> 73: invalid continuation byte
>
> Anyone knows how to be able to catch the content of this entry in a
> python variable ?
>
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