#7733 BLOC 8.2.0 (: Cannot install Wikipedia-10.xo

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#7733: Cannot install Wikipedia-10.xo
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   Reporter:  tomeu     |       Owner:  tomeu                        
       Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                          
   Priority:  blocker   |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)         
  Component:  sugar     |     Version:  Git as of bug date           
 Resolution:            |    Keywords:  8.2.0:? blocks?:8.2.0 relnote
Next_action:  diagnose  |    Verified:  0                            
  Blockedby:            |    Blocking:                               
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Comment(by cscott):

 marco: nope, not relevant.  The UTF-8 forcing is being done by dbus; see
 http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#message-protocol-
 signatures which specifies only UTF-8 encoding for type STRING, and
 http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/doc/tutorial.html#byte-arrays-
 and-utf8-strings which discusses how the python bindings will decode the
 UTF-8 and give you a unicode by default unless you pass in the
 utf8_strings=True keyword option (in which case you get a UTF-8 encoded
 'str' object, which is what we want).  Another alternative would be to
 declare all sugar methods which take a filename as taking a byte array as
 argument (which the python binding will also return as a 'str'), but I
 think we can live with a UTF-8 restriction on filenames (although it's
 worth noting that I had to fix the olpc-update manifest format once upon a
 time to *not* assume valid UTF-8, because our library content was rife
 with misencoded filenames).

 I'm working on a patch.

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