Section tool.poetry.authors does not accept umlauts (ä, ö, ü)

[se-jaeger]

• I am on the latest Poetry version.
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
• If an exception occurs when executing a command, I executed it again in debug mode (-vvv option).

• OS version and name: macOS 11.4
• Poetry version: 1.1.7

Issue

I'm using the following section:

[tool.poetry]
...
authors = ["Sebastian Jäger <[email protected]>"]

and ran: poetry build
This failed with the message: (...) Invalid author string. Must be in the format: John Smith <[email protected]> (...)

Replacing ä with ae works as expected.

In my opinion the error should be more descriptive, e.g.: (...) Invalid author string. Must be in the format: John Smith <[email protected]> and should not contain special characters(/ umlauts) (...)

Full Stack Trace

-> poetry build -vvv

  Stack trace:

  9  /usr/local/Cellar/poetry/1.1.7/libexec/vendor/lib/python3.9/site-packages/clikit/console_application.py:131 in run
      129│             parsed_args = resolved_command.args
      130│
    → 131│             status_code = command.handle(parsed_args, io)
      132│         except KeyboardInterrupt:
      133│             status_code = 1

  8  /usr/local/Cellar/poetry/1.1.7/libexec/vendor/lib/python3.9/site-packages/clikit/api/command/command.py:120 in handle
      118│     def handle(self, args, io):  # type: (Args, IO) -> int
      119│         try:
    → 120│             status_code = self._do_handle(args, io)
      121│         except KeyboardInterrupt:
      122│             if io.is_debug():

  7  /usr/local/Cellar/poetry/1.1.7/libexec/vendor/lib/python3.9/site-packages/clikit/api/command/command.py:171 in _do_handle
      169│         handler_method = self._config.handler_method
      170│
    → 171│         return getattr(handler, handler_method)(args, io, self)
      172│
      173│     def __repr__(self):  # type: () -> str

  6  /usr/local/Cellar/poetry/1.1.7/libexec/vendor/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cleo/commands/command.py:92 in wrap_handle
       90│         self._command = command
       91│
    →  92│         return self.handle()
       93│
       94│     def handle(self):  # type: () -> Optional[int]

  5  /usr/local/Cellar/poetry/1.1.7/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/poetry/console/commands/build.py:36 in handle
      34│
      35│         builder = Builder(self.poetry)
    → 36│         builder.build(fmt, executable=self.env.python)
      37│

  4  /usr/local/Cellar/poetry/1.1.7/libexec/vendor/lib/python3.9/site-packages/poetry/core/masonry/builder.py:35 in build
      33│
      34│         for builder in builders:
    → 35│             builder(self._poetry, executable=executable).build()
      36│

  3  /usr/local/Cellar/poetry/1.1.7/libexec/vendor/lib/python3.9/site-packages/poetry/core/masonry/builders/builder.py:92 in __init__
       90│         )
       91│
    →  92│         self._meta = Metadata.from_package(self._package)
       93│
       94│     @property

  2  /usr/local/Cellar/poetry/1.1.7/libexec/vendor/lib/python3.9/site-packages/poetry/core/masonry/metadata.py:60 in from_package
      58│         meta.keywords = ",".join(package.keywords)
      59│         meta.home_page = package.homepage or package.repository_url
    → 60│         meta.author = package.author_name
      61│         meta.author_email = package.author_email
      62│

  1  /usr/local/Cellar/poetry/1.1.7/libexec/vendor/lib/python3.9/site-packages/poetry/core/packages/package.py:172 in author_name
      170│     @property
      171│     def author_name(self):  # type: () -> str
    → 172│         return self._get_author()["name"]
      173│
      174│     @property

  ValueError

  Invalid author string. Must be in the format: John Smith <[email protected]>

  at /usr/local/Cellar/poetry/1.1.7/libexec/vendor/lib/python3.9/site-packages/poetry/core/packages/package.py:203 in _get_author
      199│
      200│         m = AUTHOR_REGEX.match(self._authors[0])
      201│
      202│         if m is None:
    → 203│             raise ValueError(
      204│                 "Invalid author string. Must be in the format: "
      205│                 "John Smith <[email protected]>"
      206│             )
      207│

[finswimmer]

Hello @se-jaeger,

unfortunately I'm not able to reproduce your problem.

So let's try with the default questions :)

• How did you install poetry?
• How was the pyproject.toml created?
• Which text editor are using if you manipulate the file by hand?
• Which shell are you using?

fin swimmer

[se-jaeger]

Hey @finswimmer,

thanks for your quick answer!

Regarding your questions:

• installed using brew: brew install poetry
• poetry new project-name
• I'm using VSCodium
• and zsh

[finswimmer]

Could you upload your pyproject.toml somewhere? I suspect an encoding problem of the file, which would make it hard/impossible to debug if you just paste the content here.

[se-jaeger]

It is directly after creating the project:

[tool.poetry]
name = "project-name"
version = "0.1.0"
description = ""
authors = ["Sebastian Jäger <[email protected]>"]

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "^3.9"

[tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
pytest = "^5.2"

[build-system]
requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]
build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"

But you're right, removing the ä with VSCode solves it.

[finswimmer]

Maybe related? #798

[se-jaeger]

Confirmed! It's the ~/.gitconfig file with broken encoding. Poetry then copies this over without checking it.

[srinivasreddy]

This can be closed?

[se-jaeger]

Sure. Thought someone wants to investigate this further or even fix it.
Thanks a lot!

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