"UnicodeDecodeError" problem in Czech setup (WAS: [Spambayes] Re: Spambayes Digest, Vol 59, Issue 9)

[Erik Piper]

I don't have Python yet, because I'd been hoping to get by with just the
binary -- I'm not good at getting up and running on programming languages.
But I'll be happy to help in the name of science. I've started the download,
rates are cheap now, so I'll probably download it all now. Let me know what
kind of experiments I should run.

I noticed the Python 2.3b engine is a beta -- anything really odd in its
behavior (from the standpoint of a layman) I'll need to know about?

For the moment, here's some info on the profile name and application
directory

Profile name: I hope this is the same as an "account"... it's been a long
time since I worked in English Outlook. I have just one account on my home
machine, and it's a dialup account named mail.sky.cz.

"Application directory" -- here are some wild stabs...

Directory where application is located: C:\program files\microsoft
office\office\

The "Application Data" root directory in Czech Win2K is localized, and thus
C:\documents and settings\<username - in this case administrator>\Data
aplikací.
(In case the diacritical marks don't come through right: the last character
is an i with an acute accent.)

Note that the Addins subdirectory's name is also localized, and the
localized name includes one of the technically more troublesome characters
in Czech: an n with a hacek. By "technically most troublesome," I am
referring to the fact that generally, if an application handles Czech
accented characters well, but has trouble with just a few, n-with-hacek is
among those few.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Erik

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hammond [mailto:mhammond at skippinet.com.au]
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 1:49 AM
To: erik at sky.cz; spambayes at python.org
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Re: Spambayes Digest, Vol 59, Issue 9


It would seem to me that either the profile name, or the "application
directory" name is what is giving us problems.  If you have Python 2.3
available for the machine, we could perform some experiments to help move us
closer.

Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of erik at sky.cz
> Sent: Friday, 4 July 2003 10:59 PM
> To: spambayes at python.org
> Cc: erik at sky.cz
> Subject: [Spambayes] Re: Spambayes Digest, Vol 59, Issue 9
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Mark replied to my recent message on installation problems in
> private, and I
> replied back in private... since there's been activity from
> Mark on the list
> but no reply to that e-mail, I'll take the liberty of
> continuing this one on
> the list.
>
> The basics again:
> - I first discovered the problem in the 002 binary, but it
> does repro in the
> 003.
> - both repro machines run Outlook 2K CZ
> - one runs W98SE CZ and the other W2K CZ
> - Reproduced in W2K under both CZ-CZ locale and EN-US
> regional settings
> - Addin joins the list in Outlook after installation, but cannot be
> successfully activated - each return to the COM add-ins
> dialog finds it
> unchecked.
> - The original report was for W2K CZ / binary 2; see the list
> a few days back
> for details.
> - Here is the behavior for W98SE/CZ regional settings/binary 3:
> Error connecting to Outlook!
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "out1.pyz/addin", line 800, in OnConnection
>   File "out1.pyz/manager", line 682, in GetManager
>   File "out1.pyz/manager", line 226, in __init__
>   File "out1.pyz/manager", line 487, in LoadConfig
>   File "out1.pyz/ntpath", line 101, in join
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xed in
> position 9: ordinal
> not in range(128)
> ERROR: 'There was an error initializing the SpamBayes
> addin\r\n\r\nPlease re-
> start Outlook and try again.'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "out1.pyz/addin", line 800, in OnConnection
>   File "out1.pyz/manager", line 682, in GetManager
>   File "out1.pyz/manager", line 226, in __init__
>   File "out1.pyz/manager", line 487, in LoadConfig
>   File "out1.pyz/ntpath", line 101, in join
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xed in
> position 9: ordinal
> not in range(128)
> SpamBayes - Disconnecting from Outlook
> Addin terminating: 0 COM client and 1 COM servers exist.
> - the error with 003 on W2K was, as far as I can recall,
> mostly the same,
> except for the "can't decode byte XXXX" - a different byte
> was cited, AFAICR.
>
> Erik Piper
>
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