[Bf-committers] [32454] Fix UnicodeEncodingError, which prevents netrender, reprojection and playback from working on Windows in certain situations.

[Nathan Letwory]

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On 14.10.2010 0:53, Nathan Letwory wrote:
> Fix UnicodeEncodingError, which prevents netrender, reprojection and playback from working on Windows in certain situations.
> 
> Users can set their machine name to something containing non-ascii characters. In Python this currently causes problem due to
> socket.gethostname() throwing UnicodeEncodingError. Work around this by not using platform.system() (which uses internally socket.gethostname()).
> 
> See http://www.pasteall.org/16215 for backtrace

I completely forgot to include the link http://bugs.python.org/issue9377

/Nathan

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