[Dax9]

AML 0.9.12 gets this error with MAME 0.223 when running All in One in Setup Plugin:

python:
2020-08-08 17:34:59.655 T:3888  NOTICE: AML INFO : Making Manufacturer catalog ...

2020-08-08 17:35:00.450 T:3888   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--

                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!

                                            Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>

                                            Error Contents: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc5' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)

                                            Traceback (most recent call last):

                                              File "C:\Users\HTPC\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.program.AML\addon.py", line 36, in <module>

                                                resources.main.run_plugin(sys.argv)

                                              File "C:\Users\HTPC\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.program.AML\resources\main.py", line 405, in run_plugin

                                                command_context_setup_plugin()

                                              File "C:\Users\HTPC\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.program.AML\resources\main.py", line 5499, in command_context_setup_plugin

                                                db_dic['main_pclone_dic'], db_dic['assets'])

                                              File "C:\Users\HTPC\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.program.AML\resources\mame.py", line 5874, in mame_build_MAME_catalogs

                                                _cache_index_builder('Manufacturer', cache_index_dic, catalog_all, catalog_parents)

                                              File "C:\Users\HTPC\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.program.AML\resources\mame.py", line 5158, in _cache_index_builder

                                                'hash'         : fs_render_cache_get_hash(cat_name, cat_key)

                                              File "C:\Users\HTPC\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.program.AML\resources\disk_IO.py", line 1448, in fs_render_cache_get_hash

                                                return hashlib.md5(prop_key).hexdigest()

                                            UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc5' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)

                                            -->End of Python script error report<--

Changing line 1448 in disk_IO.py from this:

python:
return hashlib.md5(prop_key).hexdigest()

to this:

python:
return hashlib.md5(prop_key.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()

will avoid the error, although I do not know if this is a valid fix.