AppDaemon
Logging (self.log) does not properly handle encoding of some non-English characters.
What happened?
The AppDaemon logger does not correctly log the non-English characters æ, ø, and å.
self.log("æøå")
logs:
2023-12-11 15:42:17.591901 INFO test: ������
There is a long version as well, as I found this when parsing data from an HTTP request. Here, I can see the a bit more of the character encoding, etc., but I'm not sure if that part is necessary. If so, find it by expanding the details below.
Logging a retrieved http request (with requests and json imported):
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
self.log(response.text)
logs the response, with characters that elsewhere are displayed correctly as ø here shown as \u00f8.
If I use json.loads:
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
product_info = json.loads(response.text)
self.log(product_info)
It displays the ø as ��. But it looks like it's only a logging issue, as:
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
product_info = json.loads(response.text)
weird_encoding = product_info['location']['name'] # access the string with an 'ø'
self.log(weird_encoding)
self.log("ø" in weird_encoding)
logs:
2023-12-11 15:25:11.935265 INFO test: K��kkenskab
2023-12-11 15:25:11.935895 INFO test: True
Version
4.4.2
Installation type
Home Assistant add-on
Relevant log output
The addon does not log the version of AppDaemon, only the version of HA, HA-OS and the Addon.
For AppDaemon it simply shows using AppDaemon 4.x.
Logs:
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Add-on: AppDaemon
Python Apps and Dashboard using AppDaemon 4.x for Home Assistant
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Add-on version: 0.16.0
You are running the latest version of this add-on.
System: Home Assistant OS 11.2 (amd64 / qemux86-64)
Home Assistant Core: 2023.12.1
Home Assistant Supervisor: 2023.11.6
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From the addon github repo (https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-appdaemon/tree/main/appdaemon) I'd guess it's AppDaemon v4.4.2.
Relevant code in the app or config file that caused the issue
No response
Anything else?
No response
I have this bug too. AppDaemon v4.4.2 in Python 3.11 virtual environment. I have checked that sys.stdout.encoding is UTF-8, app is written using VS Code in UTF-8. Same code prints correctly if I run it in python.
It can be solved with optional argument ascii_encode for log which is True by default and for UTF-8 it should be False:
self.log("æøå", ascii_encode=False)
