From 3bfebb9e99089ded43d0fe956af617405ef3be45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: phear Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:11:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (sort of) FIX: publishing items whose headlines contained umlauts previously resulted in an exception --- wortschlucker/src/wortschlucker.py | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/wortschlucker/src/wortschlucker.py b/wortschlucker/src/wortschlucker.py index c998e93..af389e3 100755 --- a/wortschlucker/src/wortschlucker.py +++ b/wortschlucker/src/wortschlucker.py @@ -165,6 +165,9 @@ class Poll(sqlobject.SQLObject): complete_url = self.get_url(absolute=True) title = "%s %s %s" % (config.get('misc', 'twitter_alert_prefix'), self.title[:79], complete_url) + # the following line is quick and dirty fix for the unicode bug twitter exception. + # of course it would be better to preserve the umlauts somehow... + title = title.encode('ascii','ignore') twitter_key = config.get('misc', 'twitter_consumer_key') twitter_secret = config.get('misc', 'twitter_consumer_secret') twitter_access_key = config.get('misc', 'twitter_access_token_key')