[Bug 1270359] [NEW] test locale for Unicode support

[Rolf Leggewie]

Public bug reported:

pastebinit needs Unicode support to work.  It would be nice if it tested
for it and raised an error understandable to the average user.

$ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 pastebinit -v
pastebinit v1.4
$ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 pastebinit -v
pastebinit v1.4
leggewie at 1001P:/etc$ LC_ALL=C pastebinit -v
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pastebinit", line 293, in <module>
    pastebind = preloadPastebins()
  File "/usr/bin/pastebinit", line 102, in preloadPastebins
    instance.read(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/configparser.py", line 689, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/configparser.py", line 994, in _read
    for lineno, line in enumerate(fp, start=1):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 167: ordinal not in range(128)

** Affects: pastebinit
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: pastebinit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: pastebinit
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  test locale for Unicode support

Status in Pastebin it !!!:
  New
Status in “pastebinit” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  pastebinit needs Unicode support to work.  It would be nice if it
  tested for it and raised an error understandable to the average user.

  $ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 pastebinit -v
  pastebinit v1.4
  $ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 pastebinit -v
  pastebinit v1.4
  leggewie at 1001P:/etc$ LC_ALL=C pastebinit -v
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/pastebinit", line 293, in <module>
      pastebind = preloadPastebins()
    File "/usr/bin/pastebinit", line 102, in preloadPastebins
      instance.read(filename)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.2/configparser.py", line 689, in read
      self._read(fp, filename)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.2/configparser.py", line 994, in _read
      for lineno, line in enumerate(fp, start=1):
    File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
      return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 167: ordinal not in range(128)

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