Decode user input into unicode

Author name: Gąbal
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  File "./nbconvert/converters/../templates/skeleton/tex/null.tplx", line 25, in top-level template code
    ((*- block header -*))
  File "./nbconvert/converters/../templates/tex/latex_sphinx_base.tplx", line 141, in block "header"
    \renewcommand{\releasename}{((( nb.metadata._draft.release | escape_tex )))}
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

nbconvert/utils/console.py

@@ -1,120 +1,120
 """Utility functions for interacting with the console"""
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Copyright (c) 2013, the IPython Development Team.
 #
 # Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
 #
 # The full license is in the file COPYING.txt, distributed with this software.
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Imports
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # Used to determine python version
 import sys
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Classes and functions
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             
 def input(prompt_text):
     """
     Prompt the user for input.
     
     The input command will change depending on the version of python
     installed.  To maintain support for 2 and earlier, we must use
     raw_input in that case.  Else use input.
     
     Parameters
     ----------
     prompt_text : str
         Prompt to display to the user.
     """
     
     # Try to get the python version.  This command is only available in
     # python 2 and later, so it's important that we catch the exception
     # if the command isn't found.
     try:
         majorversion = sys.version_info[0]
     except AttributeError:
         majorversion = 1
         
     # Use the correct function to prompt the user for input depending on 
     # what python version the code is running in.
     if majorversion >= 3:
         return input(prompt_text) 
     else:
-        return raw_input(prompt_text)
+        return raw_input(prompt_text).decode(sys.stdin.encoding)
 
     
 def prompt_boolean(prompt, default=False):
     """
     Prompt the user for a boolean response.
     
     Parameters
     ----------
     prompt : str
         prompt to display to the user
     default : bool, optional
         response to return if none is given by the user
     """
     
     response = input(prompt)
     response = response.strip().lower()
     
     #Catch 1, true, yes as True
     if len(response) > 0 and (response == "1" or response[0] == "t" or response[0] == "y"):
         return True
     
     #Catch 0, false, no as False
     elif len(response) > 0 and (response == "0" or response[0] == "f" or response[0] == "n"):
         return False
         
     else:
         return default
 
 
 def prompt_dictionary(choices, default_style=1, menu_comments={}):
     """
     Prompt the user to chose one of many selections from a menu.
     
     Parameters
     ----------
     choices : dictionary
         Keys - choice numbers (int)
         Values - choice value (str), this is what the function will return
     default_style : int, optional
         Choice to select if the user doesn't respond
     menu_comments : dictionary, optional
         Additional comments to append to the menu as it is displayed
         in the console.
         Keys - choice numbers (int)
         Values - comment (str), what will be appended to the 
         corresponding choice
     """
             
     # Build the menu that will be displayed to the user with
     # all of the options available. 
     prompt = ""
     for key, value in choices.iteritems():
         prompt += "%d %s " % (key, value)
         if key in menu_comments:
             prompt += menu_comments[key]
         prompt += "\n"
     
     # Continue to ask the user for a style until an appropriate
     # one is specified.
     response = -1
     while (not response in choices):
         try:
             text_response = input(prompt)
             
             # Use default option if no input.
             if len(text_response.strip()) == 0:
                 response = default_style
             else:
                 response = int(text_response)
         except ValueError:
             print("Error: Value is not an available option.  0 selects the default.\n")
     return choices[response]