[Bug 894388] Re: eyeD3 crashes when genre is assigned a non pure ascii string

[Alexandre Detiste]

please try again with the last version that uses python3

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Title:
  eyeD3 crashes  when genre is assigned a non pure  ascii string

Status in eyed3 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Every time you try to launch eyeD3 with a parameter of the option "-G"
  which is not a pure ascii string, you get a crash.

  For instance :
  <eyeD3 -G "Hello" file> works perfectly
  but
  <eyeD3 -G "Bébé" file>  makes eyeD3 crash!

  The problem seems to be in the method called parse of the class Genre.
  This method may have a string asa  parameter. This string can be
  encoded different ways depending on where it comes from : either
  according to the encoding scheme of the tag being read from a file, or
  according to the LOCALE when it is provided as the parameter of the -G
  option. The parse method needs a utf-8 encoded string and tries to
  encode its parameter accordingly. This causes an automatic decode
  operation using ascii as the default encoding scheme : if the string
  contains character values not in the ascii character set, the program
  crashes!!

  May be it would be better if the parameter of parse could be provided as a unicode object. This object should be built by the
  caller using a decode operation with the appropriate encoding scheme at the time this scheme is known.... That's just a suggestion..

  Additional information :
  Tests made under Ubuntu 11.04 with the following package configuration :
  eyed3:
    Installé : 0.6.17-1build1
    Candidat : 0.6.17-1build1
   Table de version :
   *** 0.6.17-1build1 0
          500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  python-eyed3:
    Installé : 0.6.17-1build1
    Candidat : 0.6.17-1build1
   Table de version :
   *** 0.6.17-1build1 0
          500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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