Re: [Tools-discuss] Xml2rfc web service at https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/experimental.html does not do v3 plaintext

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On Oct 26, 2019, at 18:03, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> FYI: I cannot make the xml2rfc web service at https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/experimental.html work for v3 plaintext.  It complains that it cannot encode a character in ascii, but I didn’t specify ASCII, I asked for plaintext.

Ha, the tail of the traceback is:

 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xml2rfc/util/postal.py", line 179, in get_normalized_address_info
    writer.note(x, "Postal address check failed for author %s." % full_author_name(author, latin))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xml2rfc/writers/base.py", line 1735, in note
    self.log(self.msg(e, label, text))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xml2rfc/writers/base.py", line 1677, in log
    xml2rfc.log.write(msg)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xml2rfc/log.py", line 28, in write
    write_err.write(' '.join(args))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 95: ordinal not in range(128)

So it wanted to complain in ASCII about an author, but couldn’t, because the author isn’t an ASCII person.

(BTW, I’m still trying to figure out the postal address messages for the ASCII authors.)

Source file: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-core-resource-directory-23.xml

Grüße, Carsten