Not properly creating a message object

[Ted Gould]

$ bzr fast-import --info ./sodipodi.cfg - < ../sodipodi.fast-export
ABORT: exception occurred processing commit :1903
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in position 24: ordinal not in range(128)

*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error. This probably indicates a
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    attaching the crash file
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    and including a description of the problem.

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[Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy)]

Can you upload the fast-export file after compressing it?