nbconvert: Unicode error with minus sign

[dpsanders]

Running
ipython nbconvert --format="latex" odes_clean.ipynb
I get a strange (to my mind) unicode error, which seems to be a minus sign, apparently in an SVG?

/bin/sh: /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/ipython", line 6, in <module>
    start_ipython()
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/__init__.py", line 118, in start_ipython
    return launch_new_instance(argv=argv, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/config/application.py", line 539, in launch_instance
    app.start()
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/terminal/ipapp.py", line 362, in start
    return self.subapp.start()
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/nbconvertapp.py", line 176, in start
    self.convert_notebooks()
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/nbconvertapp.py", line 197, in convert_notebooks
    config=self.config)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/exporters/export.py", line 61, in decorator
    return f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/exporters/export.py", line 214, in export_by_name
    return globals()[function_name](nb, **kw)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/exporters/export.py", line 61, in decorator
    return f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/exporters/export.py", line 165, in export_latex
    return export(LatexExporter, nb, **kw)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/exporters/export.py", line 61, in decorator
    return f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/exporters/export.py", line 122, in export
    output, resources = exporter_instance.from_filename(nb, resources)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/exporters/exporter.py", line 221, in from_filename
    return self.from_notebook_node(nbformat.read(f, 'json'), resources=resources,**kw)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/exporters/exporter.py", line 190, in from_notebook_node
    nb_copy, resources = self._transform(nb_copy, resources)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/exporters/exporter.py", line 442, in _transform
    nbc, resc = transformer(nbc, resc)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/base.py", line 61, in __call__
    return self.call(nb,resources)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/base.py", line 85, in call
    worksheet.cells[index], resources = self.transform_cell(cell, resources, index)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/convertfigures.py", line 54, in transform_cell
    self._convert_figure(cell_out, resources, data_type, data)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/convertfigures.py", line 63, in _convert_figure
    data = self.convert_figure(data_type, data)
  File "/Users/dsanders/development/ipython/IPython/nbconvert/transformers/svg2pdf.py", line 77, in convert_figure
    f.write(data)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2212' in position 13282: ordinal not in range(128)

[minrk]

Try #3699

[dpsanders]

Perfect! Many thanks!

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Min RK notifications@github.com wrote:

Try #3698 #3698

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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

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