Comment 0 for bug 434411

Interesting.. I see a lot of unicode decode exceptions while trying to parse the "subject" of an X.509 certificate (must be some underlying SSL thing, since foolscap doesn't care about fields like that).

Does your system perhaps have a non-ascii hostname?

Could you run the Foolscap unit tests (see http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac to download a tarball directly) and see if they complain about the same sort of thing?

What version of Twisted are these tests using? ("twistd --version" is probably the easiest way to get it, although "./bin/tahoe --version" from your Tahoe tree will give even more information if it works)

Also, please check to see what Python's default encodings are.. here's how I look at them on my system:

{{{
% python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54869, Apr 18 2007, 22:08:04)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
'ascii'
>>> sys.getfilesystemencoding()
'utf-8'
>>>
}}}