UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcf in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

[vinogradniy@…]

How to Reproduce

While doing a GET operation on /admin/ticket/comments/1, Trac issued an internal error.

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Request parameters:

{'cat_id': u'ticket', 'panel_id': u'comments', 'path_info': u'1'}

User Agent was: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; ru; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 MRA 5.6 (build 03278) Firefox/3.6.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

System Information

Trac	0.11rc2
Python	2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
setuptools	0.6c9
SQLite	3.5.2
pysqlite	2.4.0
Genshi	0.5
mod_python	3.3.1
Subversion	1.4.6 (r28521)
jQuery:	1.2.3

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\trac\web\main.py", line 423, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\trac\web\main.py", line 219, in dispatch
    data, content_type)
  File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\trac\web\chrome.py", line 726, in render_template
    stream.render(method, doctype=doctype, out=buffer)
  File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\genshi\core.py", line 179, in render
    return encode(generator, method=method, encoding=encoding, out=out)
  File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\genshi\output.py", line 61, in encode
    for chunk in iterator:
  File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\genshi\output.py", line 311, in __call__
    for kind, data, pos in stream:
  File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\genshi\output.py", line 753, in __call__
    for kind, data, pos in stream:
  File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\genshi\output.py", line 592, in __call__
    for kind, data, pos in stream:
  File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\genshi\output.py", line 707, in __call__
    text = mjoin(textbuf, escape_quotes=False)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcf in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

[Ryan J Ollos]

There is not enough information here to proceed. Please reopen if you can provide the text of the comment you were trying to edit, as well as how you were trying to edit the text (i.e. directly from the ticket, or through the Admin interface).