Error message downloading from flickr

[susanLBcanada]

tag: Easter
sort: interesting
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf3' in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)
on the 7th image

tag: saint, patricks
sort: interesting
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2667' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)

with the following from terminal
...Snip
url = http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?api_key=045379bc5368502f749af23d95a17c83&photo_id=13199372033&method=flickr.photos.getSizes
Thread done
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/webilder/progress_dialog.py", line 48, in newfunc
func(self, _args, *_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/webilder/DownloadDialog.py", line 51, in run
raise exc
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2667' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)

made from source directions on your site on Debian: Jessy

Hopefully it isn't a problem to give you headaches!
Susan

[Corin-EU]

This problem of not being able to encode Unicode characters in image file names is still present in the latest Webilder 0.7.3

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/webilder_downloader", line 9, in
load_entry_point('Webilder==0.7.3', 'console_scripts', 'webilder_downloader')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/webilder/downloader.py", line 195, in main
download_all(notify)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/webilder/downloader.py", line 154, in download_all
filter_photos(config, photos)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/webilder/downloader.py", line 66, in filter_photos
print _("Skipping already existing photo '%s'") % photo['title']
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 74: ordinal not in range(128)

If you do not intend to add Unicode support for file names, why not just convert any character which is out of range to a string of characters eg for u'\u2667', make it the six ASCII characters Xu266X and for u'\xfc' make it the six ASCII charactters XuxfcX where X could be X or underline or dash.

Although the filenames would look strange, at least it would not break the download.