Re: Debian Games Team website

[Alexandre Dantas <eu@alexdantas.net>]

Hi Andreas, I think I ran into the same encoding issue you just
mentioned.

I'm posting about this on the mailing list hoping that someone
can help and also saving the solution for future queries.

I got the Blends Website repository[0] and downloaded the UDD[1],
following all the instructions to keep a local copy of it
(set up postgresql and stuff).

Unfortunately whenever I try to build the Debian Games Blend...

    cd ~/path/to/blends/website
    cd webtools/
    ./tasks.py debian-games

...it aborts with an error message like this:

    Trackback (most recent call last):
      File "./tasks.py", line 181 in <module>
        print >> f, template.generate(**data).render('xhtml')
    UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbb' in
position 4930: orginal not in range(128)

So have you ran on this same issue?
How do you work around it?

Note that I did not made any changes to the code, just want to see it
working locally before doing anything.

Regards,
Alexandre Dantas

[0]: git clone
git+ssh://<user>@scm.alioth.debian.org//git/blends/website.git
[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase/


On 08/18/2014 04:56 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Markus,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 02:21:47PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote:
>>
>> I just had a look. I think I need to change the output format and
>> doctype to HTML5 in tasks.py, include the bootstrap stylesheets and
>> change the markup of all files in the templates directory.
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
>> I guess I can do that.
> 
> Sounds even better. :-)
> 
>> The question is how can I test my results without disrupting
>> other blends? Is there a simple to way to create templates on a
>> per-Blend basis? Does some kind of playground or test setup for
>> experiments exist?
> 
> I'm using two kinds of playgrounds:
> 
>    1. My local machine running a (monthly updated) UDD clone 
>       Remark: Currently I'm struggling hard since the code that
>       runs under stable has some encoding issues under testing
>       which I'm using on local machines.  That's a big nuisance
>       and one of the reasons I do not make progress. :-(
> 
>    2. http://blends.debian.net
>                            ^^^
> 
> If you send me a user name you want to use and a ssh-key you can
> get a login on blends.debian.net.
> 
> I'd happily provide more hints if needed.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>        Andreas.
>