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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0002973 | FreeCAD | Bug | public | 2017-03-18 22:53 | 2019-06-19 14:57 |
| Reporter | ian.rees | Assigned To | chrisb | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 0.17 | ||||
| Target Version | 0.18 | ||||
| Summary | 0002973: Path to FreeCAD.app can't contain unicode (in Python2 based install) | ||||
| Description | If the path to FreeCAD.app (MacOS application bundle for FreeCAD), or just the FreeCAD binary, contains unicode characters outside of the ASCII range then it won't launch properly. I suspect this comes from the app initialisation python script ( src/App/FreeCADInit.py ), which means that it likely occurs on other platforms than MacOS as well. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | 1) Make directory named uñîcøde 2) Copy FreeCAD.app in to it 3) Try to launch FreeCAD.app Observe popup containing text like: While initializing FreeCAD the following exception occurred: ''ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0303' in position 23: ordinal not in range(128)' Python is searching for its files in the following directories: :/Users/irees/Desktop/uñîcøde/FreeCAD.app/Contents/lib/python27.zip:/Users/irees/Desktop/uñîcøde/FreeCAD.app/Contents/lib/python2.7:/Users/irees/Desktop/uñîcøde/FreeCAD.app/Contents/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin:/Users/irees/Desktop/uñîcøde/FreeCAD.app/Contents/lib/python2.7/plat-mac:/Users/irees/Desktop/uñîcøde/FreeCAD.app/Contents/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages:/Users/irees/Desktop/uñîcøde/FreeCAD.app/Contents/lib/python2.7/lib-tk:/Users/irees/Desktop/uñîcøde/FreeCAD.app/Contents/lib/python2.7/lib-old:/Users/irees/Desktop/uñîcøde/FreeCAD.app/Contents/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload Python version information: 2.7.13 (default, Dec 18 2016, 07:03:34) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81)] Please contact the application's support team for more information. | ||||
| Additional Information | Source based on e3d558410 (git master 19th March 2017) | ||||
| Tags | python, unicode | ||||
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Forum thread: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=25217 |
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This also happens on Windows and Linux. With https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/commit/1cfae464b4af12c5483c2495fae360bbf3b4c0cd FreeCAD at least starts on Windows but is not able to find any of its extension modules. I guess this is related to limitations in Python2. |
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I have refreshed my Py3 build on Ubuntu and when running FreeCAD from a path with uñîcøde inside the application just starts normally without any problems. So, IMO this is mainly a Py2 issue and since for 0.17 no official Py3 support is planned I will postpone this for 0.18. |
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@wmayer this ticket is currently considered a release blocker. Is it really? |
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It's not a blocker, it's maybe a major error but not more! And it's not a FreeCAD bug but a Python2 bug. The user has to be aware that he cannot put the binaries at an arbitrary location which is not a big limitation. As written above the actual reason of the issue is that Py2 doesn't handle it correctly if the system path contains characters outside 7-bit ascii and that on Windows or Linux we can see similar problems. As far as I can see this is fixed in Py3. |
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@wmayer Thanks. I'll relabel the ticket. So should we change the ticket name to something like: Instruct users to not put binaries in arbitrary locations if they run py2? Or should we just close this ticket since we're migrating to py3 and less concerned with py2 remaining issues? |
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Before closing it a macOS user must verify that it works with Py3. |
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@chrisb care to test this on MacOS built with Py3? |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2017-03-18 22:53 | ian.rees | New Issue | |
| 2017-03-18 22:53 | ian.rees | Tag Attached: unicode python | |
| 2017-03-24 16:25 | Kunda1 | Tag Attached: python | |
| 2017-03-24 16:25 | Kunda1 | Tag Attached: unicode | |
| 2017-03-24 16:25 | Kunda1 | Tag Detached: unicode python | |
| 2017-11-05 11:58 | Kunda1 | Note Added: 0010381 | |
| 2017-11-05 11:58 | Kunda1 | Additional Information Updated | |
| 2017-11-05 12:02 | Kunda1 | Additional Information Updated | |
| 2017-11-05 13:52 | Kunda1 | Target Version | => 0.17 |
| 2017-11-05 13:53 | Kunda1 | Status | new => confirmed |
| 2017-11-21 16:11 | Kunda1 | Severity | major => block |
| 2017-11-24 11:31 | Kunda1 | Relationship added | related to 0002908 |
| 2017-12-02 17:11 | wmayer | Relationship deleted | related to 0002908 |
| 2017-12-02 19:00 | wmayer | Note Added: 0010511 | |
| 2017-12-03 07:09 | wmayer | Target Version | 0.17 => 0.18 |
| 2017-12-03 07:09 | wmayer | Note Added: 0010512 | |
| 2018-07-03 02:29 | Kunda1 | Relationship added | related to 0001672 |
| 2018-09-13 22:08 | wmayer | Relationship added | related to 0003588 |
| 2018-09-14 12:56 | Kunda1 | Relationship added | related to 0002908 |
| 2018-09-14 16:04 | wmayer | Relationship deleted | related to 0002908 |
| 2018-10-10 17:48 | Kunda1 | Relationship added | related to 0003632 |
| 2018-10-11 19:40 | wmayer | Relationship deleted | related to 0003632 |
| 2019-02-27 20:45 | Kunda1 | Note Added: 0012786 | |
| 2019-02-27 21:01 | wmayer | Note Added: 0012789 | |
| 2019-02-27 21:26 | Kunda1 | Note Added: 0012790 | |
| 2019-02-27 21:27 | Kunda1 | Severity | block => major |
| 2019-02-27 21:27 | Kunda1 | Summary | Path to FreeCAD.app can't contain unicode => Path to FreeCAD.app can't contain unicode (in Python2 based install) |
| 2019-02-28 10:23 | wmayer | Note Added: 0012803 | |
| 2019-02-28 16:49 | Kunda1 | Note Added: 0012805 | |
| 2019-06-19 06:25 | chrisb | Assigned To | => chrisb |
| 2019-06-19 06:25 | chrisb | Status | confirmed => closed |
| 2019-06-19 06:25 | chrisb | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2019-06-19 14:57 | Kunda1 | Fixed in Version | => 0.19 |
