unable to read special unicode characters

[Patrick]

If you try to use the BibAdd Macro with a UTF-8 encoded file that contains special characters which are encoded with 2 or more Bytes, a UnicodeDecodeError occurs. In my case, I need to use German Umlauts like ä,ö,ü.

A workaround for that is to handle the data as unicode objects from the start. So what I did is to utf-8-decode the string, that was read, into a unicode object. The bibtexparse library and the whole Trac-System handle unicode objects just as well as str objects.

This is the patch I made to tracbib.py to make this work:

191,196c191,192
<     try:
<         # handle all data as unicode objects
<         u = unicode(string,"utf-8")
<         entries = extract_entries(u)
<     except UnicodeDecodeError:
<         raise TracError("A UnicodeDecodeError occured while loading the data. Try to save the file in UTF-8 encoding.")
---
> 
>     entries = extract_entries(string)

[Roman Mohr]

r8366, thank you for the patch.