Special Character causes a crash during scanning

[efalsken]

Scanner Log:

Jun 19, 2023 20:38:38.554 [140589647653696] ERROR - Error in Python: Running scanner:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Scanners/Series/Absolute Series Scanner.py", line 1316, in Scan
    Scan(path, sorted(subdir_files), media, sorted(subdir_dirs), language=language, root=root, kwargs_trigger=True)  #relative path for dir or it will show only grouping folder series
  File "/config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Scanners/Series/Absolute Series Scanner.py", line 1190, in Scan
    standard_holding.append([file, root, path, show, season, int(ep), title, year, int(ep2) if ep2 and ep2.isdigit() else None, rx, tvdb_mapping, unknown_series_length, offset_season, offset_episode, mappingList])
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '\xb2'
Jun 19, 2023 20:38:38.561 [140589647653696] ERROR - We got an error scanning in /data/Videos/Anime
Jun 19, 2023 20:40:09.080 [140589647653696] WARN - Scanning the location /data/Videos/Anime did not complete

The file in question was: [Anime Time] Neon Genesis Evangelion - Death (True)².mkv

Apparently, the code that was trying to identify the episode number thought that the ^2 superscript was a digit. I'd recommend an extra regex filter [0-9] if your environment not support the \d subclass.

[ZeroQI]

Am really bad at unicode and other strings, so do not have the level to fix.

[efalsken]

This throws and causes the entire scan to halt without any feedback on what file caused the problem. I had to go through everything that I had added to find it.

[ZeroQI]

I understand the implications perfectly, however am still ill equipped to deal with such string coding issues.
Does it crash plex scanner as well?

[efalsken]

Yes. The scanning terminates in full when encountering this file name and no further library updates happen. I'm good with regex and can help. Hit me up in discord.