unicode characters in the filename.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. using linux, ./thotkeeper
2. file->new
3. choose a unicode filename, such as "pétur"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected output would be access to my newly created diary.
Instead i'm kicked back to the first screen.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 0.4.0

Please provide any additional information below.

Console output:
petur@O2:~/Downloads/thotkeeper-0.4.0$ ./thotkeeper 

(python:11764): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to
allocate widget with width -5 and height 17

(python:11764): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to
allocate widget with width -5 and height 17
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./lib/tk_main.py", line 1237, in _FileNewMenu
    self._SetDataFile(path, True)
  File "./lib/tk_main.py", line 781, in _SetDataFile
    self.entries = tk_data.parse_data(datafile)
  File "./lib/tk_data.py", line 463, in parse_data
    xml.sax.parse(datafile, handler)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/sax/__init__.py", line 33, in parse
    parser.parse(source)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/sax/expatreader.py", line 107, in parse
    xmlreader.IncrementalParser.parse(self, source)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/sax/xmlreader.py", line 119, in parse
    self.prepareParser(source)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/sax/expatreader.py", line 111, in prepareParser
    self._parser.SetBase(source.getSystemId())
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in
position 29: ordinal not in range(128)


Feel free to contact me: petur -{at}- petur -{dot}- eu

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 14 Mar 2010 at 8:25