Unicode Encode Error

[SaGrLand]

Next encrypted full backup crashes (Fedora 20, duplicity-0.6.23-2.fc20.x86_64) with local de_DE.utf8:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1489, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1483, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1332, in main
    do_backup(action)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1414, in do_backup
    globals.gpg_profile.passphrase = get_passphrase(1, action)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 168, in get_passphrase
    pass1 = getpass.getpass(_("GnuPG passphrase:")+" ")
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/getpass.py", line 83, in unix_getpass
    passwd = fallback_getpass(prompt, stream)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/getpass.py", line 118, in fallback_getpass
    return _raw_input(prompt, stream)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/getpass.py", line 128, in _raw_input
    prompt = str(prompt)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

[SaGrLand (sg-b)]

After a downgrade to duplicity 0.6.21-1.fc20 everythink works fine.

[chaoscommander (cc23)]

This occurs on Gentoo Linux 3.10.17, too. As soon as the passphrase prompt appears, duplicity aborts with the above UnicodeEncodeError. Started happening after updating to duplicity 0.6.23-r1.

[Vincent Rubiolo (vincent-libre)]

Encountered the same issue on Fedora 20, with backups made using a French local (fr_FR.utf-8 probably). I confirm the downgrade fixed the issue for me.

Problematic versions:
deja-dup-30.0-1.fc20.x86_64
duplicity-0.6.24-2.fc20

downgraded to :
duplicity-0.6.21-1.fc20.x86_64
deja-dup-27.3.1-2.fc20.x86_64

[Vincent Rubiolo (vincent-libre)]

s/fixed the issue/allowed to work around the issue/

Attached capture of the backtrace I had in my case.

[Tomáš Moravec (otoman100)]

Please fix this bug...