[CASSANDRA-11626] cqlsh fails and exits on non-ascii chars

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.7, 3.0.7, 3.7
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Labels: cqlsh
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Tom Hobbs
• Reporter: Robert Stupp

Authors

Tom Hobbs

Reviewers

Paulo Motta

• Created: 21/Apr/16 16:05
• Updated: 28/Jun/19 03:19
• Resolved: 05/May/16 16:42

Description

Just seen on cqlsh on current trunk:

To repro, copy ä (german umlaut) to cqlsh and press return.
cqlsh errors out and immediately exits.

$ bin/cqlsh
Connected to Test Cluster at 127.0.0.1:9042.
[cqlsh 5.0.1 | Cassandra 2.1.13-SNAPSHOT | CQL spec 3.2.1 | Native protocol v3]
Use HELP for help.
cqlsh> ä
Invalid syntax at line 1, char 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/snazy/devel/cassandra/trunk/bin/cqlsh.py", line 2636, in <module>
    main(*read_options(sys.argv[1:], os.environ))
  File "/Users/snazy/devel/cassandra/trunk/bin/cqlsh.py", line 2625, in main
    shell.cmdloop()
  File "/Users/snazy/devel/cassandra/trunk/bin/cqlsh.py", line 1114, in cmdloop
    if self.onecmd(self.statement.getvalue()):
  File "/Users/snazy/devel/cassandra/trunk/bin/cqlsh.py", line 1139, in onecmd
    self.printerr('  %s' % statementline)
  File "/Users/snazy/devel/cassandra/trunk/bin/cqlsh.py", line 2314, in printerr
    self.writeresult(text, color, newline=newline, out=sys.stderr)
  File "/Users/snazy/devel/cassandra/trunk/bin/cqlsh.py", line 2303, in writeresult
    out.write(self.applycolor(str(text), color) + ('\n' if newline else ''))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)
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