[Bug 41474] Display not parsing xorg.conf with utf-8 characters

[Fran6co]

Public bug reported:

Affects: kde-guidance (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
If I install ubuntu using as default the spanish language, xorg.conf
will have:

.....

Section "Monitor"
  option "DPMS"
  identifier "Monitor genérico"
......

Section "Screen"
  Identifier "Default Screen"
  Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV15DDR [GeForce2 Ti]"
  Monitor "Monitor genérico"
......

Display is unable to change anything from the xorg.conf, and it will
output this (my interpretation is the character í that is causing the
problem):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/displayconfig.py", line 785, in save
    self.xsetup.writeXorgConfig(tmpfilename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/displayconfigabstraction.py", line 674, in writeXorgConf
ig
    self.xorg_config.writeConfig(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xorgconfig.py", line 614, in writeConfig
    fhandle.write(self.toString())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xorgconfig.py", line 610, in toString
    return Co
nfigContainer.toString(self,depth)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xorgconfig.py", line 214, in toString
    string += item.toString(depth+1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xorgconfig.py", line 360, in toString
    return '%sSection "%s
"\n%s%sEndSection\n' % \
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xorgconfig.py", line 214, in toString
    string += item.toString(depth+1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xorgconfig.py", line 98, in toString
    string += ' "' + '" "'.join([str
(item) for item in self._row[1:]]) + '"'
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xed' in position 15: ordinal not in range(128)

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Display not parsing xorg.conf with utf-8 characters
https://launchpad.net/bugs/41474