[cairo] PyCairo crashes

[Steve]

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 03:12 -0800, cairo-request at cairographics.org
wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:49:42 +0100, Simon B?chler <sbaechler at me.com>
> wrote:
> > self.basename=self.basename.decode("unicode_escape","ignore")
> > self.basename=self.basename.encode("ascii","ignore")
> > 
> > self.surface2.write_to_png(self.basename)
> > 
> > Now special characters are just left out which is sad. Apparently
> the 
> > function cannot deal with those.

You originally said self.basename was a string, but its now looking like
you are using unicode objects.

> Strange. The underlying C function:
> 
>         cairo_surface_write_to_png (cairo_surface_t     *surface,
>                                     const char          *filename)
> 
> Takes that filename and just calls:
> 
>         FILE *fp = fopen (filename, "wb");
> 
> So that should work with pretty much any sequence of bytes you like
> for
> the filename, (as long as it doesn't contain '/' of course).
> 
> So perhaps there's a bug somewhere in the python wrapper for this
> function.

Probably. If Simon can state exactly what string or unicode object he is
using which is giving the problems it will make it much easier to find
the problem.

Regards
Steve