Using utf-8 in series alternate_name causes crash #2373
Description
Actual behaviour:
All series feeds will occasionally crash with the following message: "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xd3' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)".
Steps to reproduce:
I can't reproduce this on demand with my real config, I don't know what specifically triggers it, but I have 120 cash_report files dating back to 02.05 when the problem began. The problem can be reliably reproduced using the below minimal config in a clean directory.
Config:
tasks:
ettv:
rss:
url: https://www.ettv.to/rss.php?cat=5
series:
- Trapped:
alternate_name: [ Ófærð, Ofaero ]
Log:
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2019-04-24 17:47 CRITICAL task ettv BUG: Unhandled error in plugin series_db: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xd3' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/vi/src/Flexget/flexget/task.py", line 522, in __run_plugin
return method(*args, **kwargs)
File "/Users/vi/src/Flexget/flexget/event.py", line 23, in __call__
return self.func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/Users/vi/src/Flexget/flexget/components/series/series.py", line 1141, in on_task_start
db._add_alt_name(alt, db_series, series_name, session)
File "/Users/vi/src/Flexget/flexget/components/series/db.py", line 879, in _add_alt_name
alt = str(alt)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xd3' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
Additional information:
- FlexGet version: 2.20.21
- Python version: 2.7.16
- Installation method: git
- Using daemon (yes/no): no
- OS and version: macOS 10.14.4
- Link to crash log: https://pastebin.com/raw/nGLffZzH