From 8bd6d6c8e97c02908b1a2a211dc81eac243212e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mercierc <celine.mercier@scionresearch.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 11:17:59 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] Python: URI decoding: now properly checking that paths can be
 encoded in ASCII (issue #89)

---
 python/obitools3/uri/decode.pyx | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/python/obitools3/uri/decode.pyx b/python/obitools3/uri/decode.pyx
index 75036b3..db844e1 100644
--- a/python/obitools3/uri/decode.pyx
+++ b/python/obitools3/uri/decode.pyx
@@ -173,7 +173,10 @@ def open_uri(uri,
              type newviewtype=View,
              dms_only=False,
              force_file=False):
-    
+
+    if not uri.isascii():
+        raise Exception("Paths must be ASCII characters only")
+            
     cdef bytes urib = tobytes(uri)
     cdef bytes scheme
     cdef tuple dms