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Julian Taylor (jtaylor) wrote : submittodebian crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in check_file(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

the issue is the non-ascii characters in this line of code:

  File "/usr/bin/submittodebian", line 107, in check_file
    print "Couldn't find «%s».\n" % fname

encoding the string or simply removing the «» solve the issue

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubuntu-dev-tools 0.127
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 29 15:11:17 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/submittodebian
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110805)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/submittodebian
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/submittodebian']
SourcePackage: ubuntu-dev-tools
Title: submittodebian crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in check_file(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare sbuild