[SVN] r8726 (Latex)

[Allan Odgaard]

On 27 Dec 2007, at 05:23, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> • ask python to coerce the ‘viewer’ variable into utf-8 — if not  
> done, the "check_open %s %s"%(viewer,pdfFile) line throws an  
> encoding exception when pdfFile has non-ASCII characters.
>
> I am no Python expert, but this looks like a Python bug.
>
> This is the native 10.5.1 Python and ‘viewer’ set to Preview.

More specifically a PyObjC (bridge) bug. Disabling the use of  
Foundation’s plist parser also solves the problem. So something about  
the strings returned from the plist parser is weird.