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Spanish Character in JSON-RPC output - Karnagious - 2013-10-01 Hi, a user of my addon reported a problem using the Spanish character in the show name Carnivàle. BTW, I posted this in the JSON-RPC sub-forum, and was told that JSON uses UTF8, and the database is UTF8. So that leaves me trying to figure out why python thinks the string is ascii. EDIT- which it assumes by default Here is the query: Code: episode_request = {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.GetEpisodes", "params": {"properties": ["season","episode","runtime", "resume","playcount", "tvshowid", "lastplayed", "file"]}, "id": "allTVEpisodes"} This is the output: Code: [{u'tvshowid': 1, u'episode': 5, u'resume': {u'position': 0, u'total': 0}, u'season': 1, u'lastplayed': u'2013-10-01 15:25:54', u'episodeid': 1, u'label': u'1x05. Babylon', u'file': u'C:\\TV Shows\\Carniv\xe0le\\Season1\\Carniv\xe0le.S01E05.mkv', u'playcount': 0, u'runtime': 3600}] Whenever I try and use 'file' I get this error: Code: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe0' in position 115: ordinal not in range(128) jurrabi's post helped a little. And my current fix is: Code: def bodge(name): But I get an error when I try to encode to UTF-8, and besides, this doesnt look like a robust solution. Can anyone advise on a better solution? RE: Spanish Character in JSON-RPC output - Roman_V_M - 2013-10-02 It seems that the character in question is corrupted for some reason - it is hex within a unicode string. This shouldn't normally happen, at least I haven't seen it with Russian titles when queried XBMC library with JSON-RPC. RE: Spanish Character in JSON-RPC output - Karnagious - 2013-10-02 Thanks Roman_V_M, that's very helpful. I am going to assume it is a rare problem with the name of this one file. |