LookupError: unknown encoding: windows-1252

[Paul Pearcy]

Heya,

  I last built using buildozer version 0.33dev sometime in late January. 

I am building my app with the current 0.33dev (with latest kivy dev) and am running into an odd encoding error. Seems the Python install is not aware of windows-1252:

"/private/lib/python2.7/site-packages/webencodings/__init__.py", line 85, in lookup LookupError: unknown encoding: windows-1252

Does anybody know how to fix this? 

Alternatively, is there a good way to peg the my buildozer config to a specific kivy commit so that I can use the late January version? 

Thanks!

Paul

[Paul Pearcy]

I've traced this down to what appears to be a missing encodings.cp1252 module. I can reproduce with the following main method:

import encodings.cp1252
if __name__ == '__main__':
    encodings.cp1252.Codec

If anyone has any tips or knows how to debug further it would be much appreciated. 

Thanks

[Paul Pearcy]

Well, I got something working... but it is completely insane :)

If anyone else is having trouble with mysterious missing codecs, this might help, but is very wrong. 

I am manually registering my own codecs search function that injects a copy of cp1252.py I copied into my project:

import codecs

def search_function(encoding):
    if encoding in ['cp1252', 'windows-1252', '1252', 'magic']:
        mod = __import__('hack.cp1252', fromlist=['*'], level=0)
        entry = mod.getregentry()

        return entry
    else:
        return None

if __name__ == '__main__':
    codecs.register(search_function)

    app = MyApp()
    app.run()