‘UnicodeEncodeError’ and unable to bypass with -R flag

[whiteawake]

I‘m trying to rip a box set and it’d been working well until a certain disc where I’m met with ‘UnicodeEncodeError’.

On closer inspection, following the URL to MusicBrainz, I believe the issue lies with not being able to process the Cyrillic name of the first release listed.

I have path_filter_dot, path_filter_posix, path_filter_vfat, path_filter_whitespace and path_filter_printable all set to True in my config file, which has helped me in the past with tracks that have “I’m” or “can’t” in the title, etc. – however because the issue is the artist’s name I’m assuming that these filters don’t apply.

Regardless, the listing with Cyrillic isn’t the listing I’m looking for, so I’ve tried the -R flag with the exact MusicBrainz ID but the error is again met as it still tries to ‘process’ all available listings before parsing the ID provided.

The full command I am invoking is: whipper cd rip -R 4be756e0-dbff-465c-a541-bfcfae964154 -C complete -k

If anyone can give me advice on how to fix this (or what I’m doing wrong) that would be greatly appreciated.

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[whiteawake]

I’m now also receiving the same error for the “ character (u201c) – and again this error is met when trying to parse a release that I’m not interested in, even though I’ve specified the -R flag.

[whiteawake]

Placing export PYTHONUTF8=1 in my shell configuration file resolved this issue; even though my system locale was already set to UTF‐8, Python evidently wasn’t.