[ubuntu-dev] Bug#613114: grep-merges: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character

[Nelson A. de Oliveira]

Package: ubuntu-dev-tools
Version: 0.116
Severity: normal

Hi!

With LC_ALL=C and running "grep-merges":

$ grep-merges
(...)
foomatic-db-engine	Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> (Till Kamppeter (OpenPrinting) <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>)
multipath-tools	dann frazier <dann.frazier at canonical.com> (Dustin Kirkland <kirkland at ubuntu.com>)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/grep-merges", line 50, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/grep-merges", line 47, in main
    print '%s\t%s' % (package, pretty_uploader)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

Thank you!

Best regards,
Nelson

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37.naoliv2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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ii  diffstat                1.54-1           produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev                1.15.8.10        Debian package development tools
ii  lsb-release             3.2-27           Linux Standard Base version report
ii  perl                    5.10.1-17        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-apt              0.7.100.1        Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii  python-debian           0.1.18           Python modules to work with Debian
ii  python-launchpadlib     1.6.2-1          Launchpad web services client libr
ii  python-lazr.restfulclie 0.9.21-1         client for lazr.restful-based web 
ii  python2.6               2.6.6-8+b1       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  sudo                    1.7.4p6-1        Provide limited super user privile

Versions of packages ubuntu-dev-tools recommends:
ii  bzr                        2.3.0-2       easy to use distributed version co
pn  bzr-builddeb               <none>        (no description available)
ii  ca-certificates            20090814+nmu2 Common CA certificates
ii  cowdancer                  0.62+nmu2     Copy-on-write directory tree utili
ii  debian-archive-keyring     2010.08.28    GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  debian-keyring             2011.01.24    GnuPG keys of Debian Developers
ii  debootstrap                1.0.27        Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  genisoimage                9:1.1.11-1    Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii  libapt-pkg-perl            0.1.24+b1     Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libwww-perl                5.837-1       simple and consistent interface to
ii  pbuilder                   0.199+nmu1    personal package builder for Debia
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pn  python-dns                 <none>        (no description available)
pn  python-gnupginterface      <none>        (no description available)
pn  python-magic               <none>        (no description available)
ii  python-soappy              0.12.0-4      SOAP Support for Python
ii  reportbug                  4.99.0        reports bugs in the Debian distrib

Versions of packages ubuntu-dev-tools suggests:
ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-simplejson       2.1.3-1          simple, fast, extensible JSON enco
pn  qemu-kvm-extras-static  <none>           (no description available)

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