UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6'

[annalinneajohansson]

Changing the timezone to Europe/Stockholm in .togglrc gives me this error when trying to run toggl.py:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "toggl.py", line 1063, in <module>
    CLI().act()
  File "toggl.py", line 893, in act
    Logger.info(TimeEntryList())
  File "toggl.py", line 271, in info
    print("%s%s" % (msg, end)),
  File "toggl.py", line 752, in __str__
    s += str(entry) + "\n"
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)

[drobertadams]

That means your editor entered a special character that Python can't handle. Make sure that you are using a plain text editor that isn't inserting unicode characters. I changed my timezone to "Europe/Stockholm" and it worked just fine.

[annalinneajohansson]

Thanks for the instructions, I'll make sure to try that then.

[pbihler]

The error has nothing to do with the timezone, but with user's native language... And for a scandinavian, it is not unusual to have a "ô" in their project names or entries (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00F4/index.htm).

The problem seems to be that the python script can't handle non-english (= non 7bit ascii) characters at all currently...

[pbihler]

Quickfix: set line 720 to return s.encode('ascii','replace') - Replaces all unicode characters with a ?.
Not nice, so no pull request for this. But at least, it won't break anymore.