Description

After a fresh install on a Windows(r) system with version 2.5 of python, in a default cygwin installation, wikiserver.py throws a UnicodeDecodeError. It claims that bytes 25-30 aren't a recognized Unicode code range.

Steps to reproduce

1. Base cygwin install with python 2.5, or just python 2.5 on a Windows XP SP3 machine.

2. Run python wikiserver.py

3. Visit localhost:8080 with either Google Chrome or Firefox (both display this error, IE is untested).

Example

URL: http://localhost:8080/ OR http://localhost:8080/FrontPage

Component selection

• general
• all pages

Details

unsupported_unicode_range_trace.html

Workaround

There is no current workaround, as it prevents the server from serving any pages.

Discussion

The traceback shows that your global edit-log (data/edit-log) is damaged and contains non-utf8 characters.

For a deeper analysis, we would need that edit-log (or at least the part of it that crashes).

Okay, so here's the edit-log for you: edit-log_unsupported_unicode_range.tar.gz Hope it'll help.

• This is an archive of a moin-1.8.1, not of an edit-log (it has 0 bytes).

It turns out that the archive is incompatible with ZipGenius, which I've used for years. The edit-log and event-log are shown to be 0 byte files, but turn out to be the 22,600B mess you saw. I tested using a different archiver and the extraction worked, and so too did MoinMoin.

Please post a notice on your download page for users of ZipGenius, and others who use non-standard archive utilities, that if they have errors to attempt extraction with PeaZip (which worked just fine) or another free alternative.

Plan

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• Status: likely some edit-log damage, not a bug

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