On Windows machines with Non-english locales, files with special characters in their name aren't being moved

[TFWol]

Files with dashes in their name aren't being moved since the dashes, and possibly other characters, are being removed from the file names themselves causing a mismatch.

Ex:
Error: File not found: 18 - An Example—Infrastructure.mp4
Filename in folder: 18 - An ExampleInfrastructure.mp4

Affected Courses:

• https://www.lynda.com/Selenium-tutorials/Mastering-Selenium-Testing-Tools/521207-2.html

[TFWol]

I'm thinking instead of stripping out characters based on regex, we should have the save.py somehow store the names of the downloaded files into a list where move.py can match and move accordingly.
Just an idea, I'd have to do some reading to know where to start or if it's even worth the time though.

[ankitsejwal]

I'm not able to reproduce this error on MacOS either with python 2.x or 3.x
It may be a windows thing, I'll test it on windows soon.
Thanks for reporting it mate.

[anilgunesh]

I think this bug is also related to courses where the Author has a name/surname with special characters.

I am giving one example here:
[https://www.lynda.com/Career-Development-tutorials/Repairing-Your-Reputation/441832-2.html]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Lyndor-master/run.py", line 127, in
main()
File "C:\Lyndor-master/run.py", line 33, in main
schedule_download(url)
File "C:\Lyndor-master/run.py", line 49, in schedule_download
download_course(url)
File "C:\Lyndor-master/run.py", line 92, in download_course
save.info_file(url, course_folder_path) # Gather information
File "C:\Lyndor-master\save.py", line 106, in info_file
message.write("Author Name", author_name)
File "C:\Lyndor-master\message.py", line 43, in write
sys.stdout.write(str(description) + '\t' + str(value) + '\n')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xeb' in position 10:
ordinal not in range(128)

[ankitsejwal]

Thanks for reporting it @anilgunesh. It should be fixed now, have a look.
Cheers.

[anilgunesh]

Many thanks for the quick fix. I can confirm that it works fine now. regards a.

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[TFWol]

Sorry I've been extremely busy, I can at least make a comment here and there. Just reporting for awareness my particular issue still persists.

[ankitsejwal]

sorry mate, I am not able to reproduce this bug as I don't have an access to a windows laptop. I'll test it a soon as possible.