crash with unicode error

[andrewrk]

crash with unicode error

[thejoshwolfe]

Everyone hates that unicode character. It crashed my phone, it crashed wolfebin, it crashed groovebasin, and browsers are rendering it as the invalid character glyph. I wonder if there's a unicode character for a mini troll face.

[thejoshwolfe]

The filename as a python3 bytes:

b'002 Sackpipsl\xe4t (Instrumental, Sweden).mp3'

When decoded with the Windows default encoding (Windows-1252 aka ISO-8859-1), the correct title is:

002 Sackpipslät (Instrumental, Sweden).mp3

The problem is that 0xe4 is invalid in utf8.

So now what do we do?

[thejoshwolfe]

Here's my recommendation: https://gist.github.com/2729954

The script fixes the encodings.

[thejoshwolfe]

I'm closing this issue because I think it's a user problem. Uploading files through groovebasin will never do this, so I say the library admin who stuck the files in should have made sure the file names were sensible.