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apport package

  1. Bug #827090
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 827090

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Julian Taylor (jtaylor) wrote : Re: apport-cli crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in communicate(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 40-42: ordinal not in range(128)

setdefaultencoding is disabled in site.py for a reason (and is removed in python3):
http://faassen.n--tree.net/blog/view/weblog/2005/08/02/0
http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/syssetdefaultencoding-is-evil/

its better to properly fix your application, e.g. this fails:
python -c 'print u"\u03A9"' | cat
...
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u03a9'

this works:
python -c 'print u"\u03A9".encode("UTF-8")' | cat
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