update code to handle unicodeEncodeError

Author: chinyeungli

about_code_tool/genabout.py

@@ -275,8 +275,8 @@ def write_licenses(self, license_context_list):
         for gen_license_path, license_context in license_context_list:
             try:
                 with open(gen_license_path, 'wb') as output:
-                    output.write(license_context.encode('utf8'))
-            except Exception:
+                    output.write(license_context)
+            except Exception as e:
                 self.errors.append(Error('Unknown', gen_license_path, "Something is wrong."))
 
     def get_license_text_from_api(self, url, username, api_key, license_key):

about_code_tool/genattrib.py

@@ -140,6 +140,11 @@ def main(args, opts):
     # input_path = abspath(input_path)
     output_path = abspath(output_path)
 
+    # Add the following to solve the 
+    # UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
+    reload(sys)
+    sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
+
     if not exists(input_path):
         print('Input path does not exist.')
         option_usage()