Comment 3 for bug 275509

Related question mentioning workaround: https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/45857

It happened to me today as well. As the referenced question says: it happens if you upload the same version of source package for the second time && there is an accented character in the maintainer name. I bumped version number in changelog and launchpad accepted that upload without any other change.

I think it has to do with some internal package metadata storage inside soyuz (which is in ascii), since the package doesn't influence that by itself.

For your information, I got this exact message:

 Unhandled exception processing upload: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 57: ordinal not in range(128)
 [...]
 Maintainer: Václav Šmilauer

\xe1 is "á"