Comment 3 for bug 1731995

What environ are you running in? terminal? cron?

Try this from terminal:
$ python -c "import sys; print sys.getfilesystemencoding();"

You should see utf-8, or anything but ascii.

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:24 AM, mclovin <email address hidden> wrote:

> I tried version 0.7.15 from the ppa after getting the same error as
> stated above on 0.7.12 on Ubuntu 17.10. It doesn't solve the issue,
> though.
>
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> Title:
> Special characters in an error message
>
> Status in Duplicity:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Special characters in an error message (which can contain a path name,
> for example) lead to another error because the duplicate developers
> cannot handle special characters. This has apparently been noticed in
> 2014, the proposed fix has been adopted, but no one has checked
> whether the bug has been fixed.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1546, in <module>
> with_tempdir(main)
> File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1540, in with_tempdir
> fn()
> File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1391, in main
> do_backup(action)
> File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1510, in do_backup
> full_backup(col_stats)
> File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 575, in full_backup
> globals.backend)
> File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 456, in write_multivol
> (tdp, dest_filename, vol_num)))
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py",
> line 146, in schedule_task
> return self.__run_synchronously(fn, params)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py",
> line 172, in __run_synchronously
> ret = fn(*params)
> File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 455, in <lambda>
> vol_num: put(tdp, dest_filename, vol_num),
> File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 344, in put
> backend.put(tdp, dest_filename)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line
> 376, in inner_retry
> % exception_traceback())
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/util.py", line 52,
> in exception_traceback
> return uexc(msg)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/util.py", line 80,
> in uexc
> e = unicode(e).encode('utf-8')
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position
> 736: ordinal not in range(128)
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