[Bug 905831] Re: method OptionParser#exit() from optparse.py causes UnicodeEncodeError on apport-retrace

[jbatista]

Can be solved by editing method exit() in class OptionParser of file /usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py so that the line
  sys.stderr.write(msg)
reads instead, for example:
  sys.stderr.write(msg.encode('utf-8'))

This workaround quenches the error in apport-retrace.

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Title:
  method OptionParser#exit() from optparse.py causes UnicodeEncodeError
  on apport-retrace

Status in “python2.6” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Running apport-retrace exits with an UnicodeEncodeError simply by running from the console (see bug #905826 for example) on Ubuntu Lucid, amd64.
  The line is from method exit() from class OptionParser on file optparse.py.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: python2.6-minimal 2.6.5-1ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-36.79-generic 2.6.32.46+drm33.20
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-36-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Dec 17 23:37:49 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=pt:pt_PT:pt_BR:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=pt_PT.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: python2.6

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