UDD changelog importer gets confused by unicode characters
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Distributed Development |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When trying to import xsane, the importer gets confused by the unicode character "u'\xf6'" (ö).
Line 181 of the changelog has this submitter, which seems to be the cause
-- Reinhard Fössmeier "Aisano" <email address hidden> Thu, 20 May 2010>
Here is the full log of the failure:
http://
Here is the traceback portion:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/srv/package-
sys.
File "/srv/package-
only_
File "/srv/package-
bstore, push, possible_
File "/srv/package-
use_
File "/srv/package-
cl = self.get_
File "/srv/package-
cl.
File "/usr/lib/
"for %s: %s" % (state, line), strict)
File "/usr/lib/
warnings.
File "/usr/lib/
file.
File "/usr/lib/
s = "%s:%s: %s: %s\n" % (filename, lineno, category.__name__, message)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 77: ordinal not in range(128)
I've been digging into this more and although that character is what it's complaining about there is a Cyrillic name a full hundred lines above it that should have also failed. I'm not so sure about my analysis anymore.