id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 21996 UnicodeDecodeError when calling GeoIP.country Florent Messa Claude Paroz "GeoIP.country('IP') raises an UnicodeDecodeError when dealing with countries with accents. For example: {{{ g = GeoIP() g.country('200.7.49.81') }}} Should returns ""Curaçao"" instead: {{{ In [2]: g = GeoIP() In [3]: g.country('200.7.49.81') --------------------------------------------------------------------------- UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last) in () ----> 1 g.country('200.7.49.81') /Users/thoas/Sites/Python/Ulule/.ven/ulule/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geoip/base.pyc in country(self, query) 193 # Returning the country code and name 194 return {'country_code' : self.country_code(query), --> 195 'country_name' : self.country_name(query), 196 } 197 /Users/thoas/Sites/Python/Ulule/.ven/ulule/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geoip/base.pyc in country_name(self, query) 179 if self._country: 180 if ipv4_re.match(query): --> 181 return GeoIP_country_name_by_addr(self._country, enc_query) 182 else: 183 return GeoIP_country_name_by_name(self._country, enc_query) /Users/thoas/Sites/Python/Ulule/.ven/ulule/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/geoip/prototypes.pyc in _err_check(result, func, cargs) 103 def _err_check(result, func, cargs): 104 if result: --> 105 return result.decode() 106 return result 107 func.restype = c_char_p }}}" Bug closed GIS 1.6 Normal fixed Accepted 1 0 0 0 0 0