Umlaut in spotify username

Pi MusicBox
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Hey there,

i’ve got an “ü” in my spotify username but spotify did not work on the musicbox, so i changed file encoding of settings.ini to UTF-8. Booting and Playing music just works fine. But opening the Settings tab on musicbox.local gives me an error: “UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xc3 in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)”. Trying to make the setting from Settings tab did not work, seemed like it was doing nothing…

Any ideas to fix it?

thanks in advance,
Timo

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If you can provide the full stacktrace ending with the “UnicodeDecodeError”, we can probably track down where the problem is and fix it :slight_smile:

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Stacktrace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 656, in respond
    response.body = self.handler()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cherrypy/lib/encoding.py", line 188, in __call__
    self.body = self.oldhandler(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 34, in __call__
    return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mopidy/http/actor.py", line 197, in Settings
    return template.render ( templateVars )
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 969, in render
    return self.environment.handle_exception(exc_info, True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 742, in handle_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/opt/webclient/settings/index.html", line 186, in top-level template code
    <input type="password" name="spotify__password" value="{{ spotify__password }}" size="10" maxlength="40"/>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)
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This looks like a bug in the Musicbox webclient’s settings page that has already been reported in https://github.com/woutervanwijk/Mopidy-MusicBox-Webclient/issues/27.

5

Oh okay.

So there’s no fix yet?

thanks

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There is no fix released yet but you should be able to get it working yourself using https://github.com/woutervanwijk/Pi-MusicBox/issues/131#issuecomment-51715189

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I’ll include it in 0.5.1

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8

adding the encoding='utf8' parameter to the four uses of ConfigObj(...) in /opt/musicbox/http/actor.py fixed the problem for me.

Thank you very much =)

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Great, I will add it.

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I noticed a problem with umlaut in artist names, also (no result when searching). I think it can be solved the same way but in another file maybe. I’ll test tomorrow!

edit: in mopidy.log is the following error:

    2014-09-15 08:19:55,976 - WARNING  /usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py:1268: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
  return ''.join(map(quoter, s))

editing the python lib is not a good idea. Any suggestions which file needs to be edited?

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I am trying to build an extension out of my previous work for the MusicBox settings page: It does not work yet, but I want to support unicode: https://github.com/woutervanwijk/mopidy-websettings

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