id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,component,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,release 5617,mantis2trac.py dies on Unicode errors,tdmurphy4@…,Anton Stroganov,"I am trying to run mantis2trac.py on a Mantis v1.1.8 server running under Mysql 5.x. It imports 40 tickets, than on ticket 41 it bombs out with: {{{ Traceback (most recent call last): File ""./mantis2trac.py"", line 943, in main() File ""./mantis2trac.py"", line 940, in main convert(MANTIS_DB, MANTIS_HOST, MANTIS_USER, MANTIS_PASSWORD, TRAC_ENV, TRAC_CLEAN) File ""./mantis2trac.py"", line 680, in convert trac.addTicket(**ticket) File ""./mantis2trac.py"", line 386, in addTicket desc = description.encode('utf-8') UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa3 in position 244: unexpected code byte }}} I looked at ticket 41. It has the UK pound symbol (£) in it. How do I get the script to fix this properly? I'd like to import all of the tickets in but this is a really big showstopper. Thanks!",defect,closed,high,MantisImportScript,critical,wontfix,,,0.12