UnicodeDecodeError

[haxxus]

Hello, i have it running for Quake 3 , we play on a mod that has special characters for names ( mod excessiveplus ) , when users with long names !register , it outputs this error:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf7 in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)

i had a friend edit the clients.py to recognize our mod names, changes starting from line 544:

            newName = name.strip()
        newName = self.fixExcessivePlusName(name)

        if self._name == newName:
            if self.console:
                self.console.verbose2('Aborted making alias for cid %s: name is the same' % self.cid)
            return
        if self.cid == '-1' or self.cid == 'Server': # bfbc2 addition
            if self.console:
                self.console.verbose2('Aborted making alias for cid %s: must be B3' % self.cid)
            return
        
        self.makeAlias(self._name)
        self._name = newName
        self._exactName = newName + '^7'

        if self.console and self.authed:
            self.console.queueEvent(self.console.getEvent('EVT_CLIENT_NAME_CHANGE', self.name, self))

    def _get_name(self):
        return self._name

    def fixExcessivePlusName(self, name):
        xpname='';
        for c in name :
            if ord(c) < 32 or ord(c) >= 127 :
                xpname+= "#" + c.encode("hex");
            else :
                xpname+= c;
        return xpname


    def _get_exactName(self):
        return self._exactName

any suggestions ?
thanks.

[isala404]

users must had non ascii character on his name and as for my knowledge b3 only work with ascii characters. can you send whole error from the log file ?

[haxxus]

b3.log