Fix nickname encoding and length issues

2007-05-07 00:18:42 -04:00
parent 110fa5f354
commit c89bc07e0b
2 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions
@@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ class _Profile(object):
        parsed = cp.read([config_path])

        if cp.has_option('Buddy', 'NickName'):
-            self.name = cp.get('Buddy', 'NickName')
+            name = cp.get('Buddy', 'NickName')
+            # decode nickname from ascii-safe chars to unicode
+            self.name = name.decode("utf-8")

        if cp.has_option('Buddy', 'Color'):
            self.color = XoColor(cp.get('Buddy', 'Color'))