[MacPorts] #58750: gnumeric @1.12.45_0+python27 build failure running itstool

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#58750: gnumeric @1.12.45_0+python27 build failure running itstool
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  Reporter:  hellyj    |      Owner:  dbevans
      Type:  defect    |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal    |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports     |    Version:  2.5.4
Resolution:            |   Keywords:
      Port:  gnumeric  |
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Comment (by bzbarsky):

 It looks like the basic problem is that the relevant localization files
 have non-breaking spaces, and when something in the XML processing itstool
 does fails it tries to report that as a warning like so:
 {{{
 #!python
                 sys.stderr.write('Warning: Could not merge %stranslation
 for msgid:\\
 n%s\n' % (
                         (lang + ' ') if lang is not None else '',
                         msgstr.encode('utf-8')))
 }}}
 where `msgstr` is the thing containing the non-breaking space.  And
 somewhere under the hood that tries to treat the return value of `encode`
 as ASCII, which of course it's not, and things blow up.  So the attempt to
 report a warning completely breaks the compile.

 I managed to install gnumeric by just editing `/opt/local/bin/itstool`
 (with sudo) to comment out those three lines.  I don't know whether
 `itstool` should be doing a `try` around that statement or something else
 to avoid the exception there.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58750#comment:4>
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