UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position ...

[Jason Dunsmore]

The following happens when a message that is going to be internationalized with _() contains unicode characters:

[-] CREATE: SwiftSignal "wait_condition" Stack "Default_Build_Test_1424714187_81" [f5aa778e-8f99-42eb-9130-71afeeec6a0a]
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/opt/heat/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/resource.py", line 466, in _action_recorder
     yield
   File "/opt/heat/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/resource.py", line 536, in _do_action
     yield self.action_handler_task(action, args=handler_args)
   File "/opt/heat/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/scheduler.py", line 312, in wrapper
     step = next(subtask)
   File "/opt/heat/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/resource.py", line 510, in action_handler_task
     while not check(handler_data):
   File "/opt/heat/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/resources/swiftsignal.py", line 315, in check_create_complete
     statuses = self.get_status()
   File "/opt/heat/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/resources/swiftsignal.py", line 295, in get_status
     return [s[self.STATUS] for s in self.get_signals()]
   File "/opt/heat/lib/python2.7/site-packages/heat/engine/resources/swiftsignal.py", line 268, in get_signals
     body)
   File "/opt/heat/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oslo_i18n/_message.py", line 112, in __mod__
     unicode_mod = super(Message, self).__mod__(params)
 UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 41066: ordinal not in range(128)

Here is the relevant line in Heat:
https://github.com/openstack/heat/blob/1dc46db6/heat/engine/resources/swiftsignal.py#L267-L268

This looks similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinder/+bug/1368527

[Doug Hellmann (doug-hellmann)]

What locale is configured for the server process and request?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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