GNU Mailman

Bug: canonstr() with funny character

Bug #558231 reported by hatukanezumi on 2006-02-24

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GNU Mailman	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Utils.canonstr() generates traceback when user's
realname contains some unconvertible characters (\ufffd
etc.).

A patch is attached.

Tracebacks (line numbers have some offsets):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in
run_main
    main()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line
176, in main
    change_options(mlist, category, subcat, cgidata, doc)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line
1497, in change_options
    newname = Utils.canonstr(newname,
mlist.preferred_language)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 850,
in canonstr
    newstr = EMPTYSTRING.join(newparts)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte
0x8e in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)