[Bug 870012] Re: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters

[Richard Kemp]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 820028 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/820028

I have this bug still on 12.04, using this version:

rich at RichU:~/temp$ dpkg -s software-properties-common
Package: software-properties-common
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 129
Maintainer: Michael Vogt <michael.vogt at ubuntu.com>
Architecture: all
Source: software-properties
Version: 0.82.7.7
Depends: python2.7, python (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2), python (<< 2.8), python-gi, gir1.2-glib-2.0, python-dbus
Conffiles:
 /etc/dbus-1/system.d/com.ubuntu.SoftwareProperties.conf cc3c01a5b5e8e05d40c9c075f44c43ea
Description: manage the repositories that you install software from (common)
 This software provides an abstraction of the used apt repositories.
 It allows you to easily manage your distribution and independent software
 vendor software sources.
 .
 This package contains the common files for software-properties like the
 D-Bus backend.



..when using conkyGuayadeque.py like so:

rich at RichU:~/temp$ python conkyGuayadeque.py
ERROR: Issue calling the dbus service:'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 25: ordinal not in range(128)


It doesn't like songs by, for example, Röyksopp. I note that version
0.82.7.7 of software-properties is much more recent than Brian's
comment.

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Title:
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I've upgraded from natty to oneiric (sudo do-release-upgrade -d) and
  this added comments like "disabled in upgrade to oneiric" in
  /etc/apt/sources.list and in files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d.

  The problem is: in Brazilian Portuguese, the comment is "desabilitado
  na atualização para oneiric" (it has unicode characters). When trying
  to remove, edit or enable these entries via software-properties-gtk,
  nothing happens.

  Workaround: remove the comments manually from these files.

  Running software-properties-gtk from a terminal, the following errors
  appear, when trying to remove and enable the entries, respectively:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 839, in on_remove_clicked
      self.backend.RemoveSource(str(source_entry))
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 143, in __call__
      **keywords)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
      message, timeout)
  dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.UnicodeEncodeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb
      retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py", line 268, in RemoveSource
      self.remove_source(str(source))
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 72-73: ordinal not in range(128)

  -------------------------

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 647, in on_isv_source_toggled
      self.backend.ToggleSourceUse(str(source_entry))
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 143, in __call__
      **keywords)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
      message, timeout)
  dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.UnicodeEncodeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb
      retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/dbus/SoftwarePropertiesDBus.py", line 156, in ToggleSourceUse
      self.toggle_source_use(str(source))
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 72-73: ordinal not in range(128)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-properties-gtk 0.81.9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Oct  7 10:51:58 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt_PT:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=pt_BR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-05 (1 days ago)

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