Encoding error in PPA code

Julian Edwards julian.edwards at canonical.com
Thu Sep 25 16:11:26 BST 2008


On Wednesday 24 September 2008 19:23:16 Gael Varoquaux wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting a Python encoding error when I try to upload packages to my
> PPA. I am attaching the rror message I get from launchpad. I have dealt
> with these before, so I know they are hard to track. I must admit I have
> no clue where the encoding problem is. These packages used to work fine.

[snip]

> Rejected:
> Unhandled exception processing upload: 'ascii' codec can't encode
> character
> u'\xeb' in position 57: ordinal not in range(128)

This might be some fallout from the recent email format changes (done for 
Ubuntu uploads, but the same code is used for PPA).  Please file a bug and 
we'll investigate this.

Thanks.



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