Python UnicodeDecodeError

[qgib]

Author Name: Bryan Ciceri (Bryan Ciceri)
Original Redmine Issue: 13206
Affected QGIS version: 2.8.3

---

A Python error occurs running the Make Valid LWGEOM algorithm in QGIS 2.8.3 processing toolbox:

Errore durante l'esecuzione di codice Python:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/Angelo/.qgis2/python/plugins\processing\gui\AlgorithmDialog.py", line 200, in accept
if runalg(self.alg, self):
File "C:/Users/Angelo/.qgis2/python/plugins\processing\gui\AlgorithmExecutor.py", line 51, in runalg
alg.execute(progress)
File "C:/Users/Angelo/.qgis2/python/plugins\processing\core\GeoAlgorithm.py", line 248, in execute
str(e) + self.tr('
See log for more details'))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 19: ordinal not in range(128)

Versione Python:
2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, 22:44:16) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]

Versione di QGIS:
2.8.3-Wien Wien, 313a6bc

Percorso Python: ['C:/Users/Angelo/.qgis2/python/plugins\\processinglwgeomprovider', 'C:/Users/Angelo/.qgis2/python/plugins\\processing', 'C:/PROGRA1/QGISWI1/apps/qgis-ltr/./python', u'C:/Users/Angelo/.qgis2/python', u'C:/Users/Angelo/.qgis2/python/plugins', 'C:/PROGRA1/QGISWI1/apps/qgis-ltr/./python/plugins', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\matplotlib-1.3.1-py2.7-win-amd64.egg', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\
ose-1.3.3-py2.7.egg', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\tornado-4.0.1-py2.7-win-amd64.egg', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\backports.ssl_match_hostname-3.4.0.2-py2.7.egg', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\certifi-14.05.14-py2.7.egg', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\bin\\python27.zip', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\DLLs', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\plat-win', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\bin', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\PIL', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\jinja2-2.7.2-py2.7.egg', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\markupsafe-0.23-py2.7-win-amd64.egg', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\pytz-2012j-py2.7.egg', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\win32', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\Shapely-1.2.18-py2.7-win-amd64.egg', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\six-1.3.0-py2.7.egg', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.8-msw-unicode', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\xlrd-0.9.2-py2.7.egg', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\xlwt-0.7.5-py2.7.egg', u'C:/Users/Angelo/.qgis2//python', 'C:\\Users\\Angelo\\.qgis2\\python\\plugins\\mmqgis/forms', 'C:\\PROGRA1\\QGISWI1\\apps\\qgis-ltr\\python\\plugins\\fTools\\tools']

What could be the origin of the issue and its solution?

[qgib]

Author Name: Matthias Kuhn (@m-kuhn)

---

This error normally refers to non-latin characters in paths, layer names etc.
If you have a layer name with umlauts, try to rename it.

... And I hope that what I just committed solves the issue so umlauts are also supported in the future ...

---

• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

[qgib]

Author Name: Matthias Kuhn (@m-kuhn)

---

• status_id was changed from Feedback to Closed