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  File "<frozen codecs>", line 322, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 1491: invalid continuation byte

Great package but haven't been able to get it to work for months :(

@ZimbiX I had the same issue and installed another emoji picker. Then emote suddenly started working. Apparently the python-manimpango package was missing even though it was a required dependency. Maybe our AUR helpers messed up when updating the package from a previous version? (trizen in my case.)

So, try removing and re-installing the package?

@vstuart Thanks for the workaround! Any idea why it can't find manimpango, or why that seems to be optional?

I got this error:

➜  ~ emote
Launching emote daemon
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/emote/__init__.py", line 101, in do_activate
    self.start_daemon()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/emote/__init__.py", line 30, in start_daemon
    emojis.init()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/emote/emojis.py", line 248, in init
    for row in reader:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/csv.py", line 110, in __next__
    self.fieldnames
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/csv.py", line 97, in fieldnames
    self._fieldnames = next(self.reader)
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen codecs>", line 322, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 1491: invalid continuation byte

ISSUE

[victoria@victoria ~]$ date
  Fri May 19 04:50:01 PM PDT 2023

[victoria@victoria ~]$ yay -Ss emote | grep -w emote
  aur/emote 3.1.0-2 (+25 0.74) (Installed)

[victoria@victoria ~]$ emote

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/emote", line 33, in <module>
      sys.exit(load_entry_point('Emote==3.1.0', 'gui_scripts', 'emote')())
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "/usr/bin/emote", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
      return next(matches).load()
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 202, in load
      module = import_module(match.group('module'))
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
      return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1206, in _gcd_import
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1178, in _find_and_load
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1128, in _find_and_load_unlocked
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1206, in _gcd_import
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1178, in _find_and_load
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1149, in _find_and_load_unlocked
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 940, in exec_module
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
    File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/emote/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
      import manimpango
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'manimpango'

[victoria@victoria ~]$ yay -Ss manimpango

  aur/python-manimpango 0.4.3-1 (+13 0.73) (Installed)
    C binding for Pango using Cython used in Manim to render (non-LaTeX) text.

[victoria@victoria ~]$

SOLUTION

[victoria@victoria ~]$ sudo vim /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/emote/__init__.py
  [sudo] password for victoria: 

  ## COMMENTED OUT these two lines:
  ##    # import manimpango
  ##    # manimpango.register_font(f"{config.static_root}/NotoColorEmoji.ttf")

[victoria@victoria ~]$ 

Build error

install: impossible d'évaluer '/home/gregory/.cache/pacaur/emote/pkg/emote/usr/share/applications/emote.desktop': Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type ==> ERREUR : Une erreur s’est produite dans package(). Abandon… :: failed to build python-hijri-converter package(s) :: failed to build emote package(s)

I'm also getting stuck on the "Launching emote daemon" line.

E: Seems to have passed with a reboot.

• xdotool should be optdepends since it’s not used under Wayland.

• I don’t know where the python-xlib dependency came from, but the upstream repository only contains “xlib” (case-insensitive) in one place, snap/snapcraft.yaml as a build package, and nowhere else in documentation or source, so it should probably be removed.

• In theory libkeybinder3 should also be optional since its functionality doesn’t work under Wayland and its calls are mostly disabled under Wayland, but the code does still require it, so that would need to be fixed before it can be made optdepends.

It fixed itself after restart.

Anyone knows about "Launching emote daemon" freeze?