UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

[Annika Roppelt]

Oops… Trac detected an internal error: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

There was an internal error in Trac. It is recommended that you inform your local Trac administrator and give him all the information he needs to reproduce the issue.

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The action that triggered the error was: GET: /timeline

How to Reproduce

While doing a GET operation on /timeline, Trac issued an internal error.

(please provide additional details here)

Request parameters:

{'changeset': u'on',
 'daysback': u'90',
 'format': u'rss',
 'max': u'50',
 'milestone': u'on',
 'ticket': u'on',
 'ticket_details': u'on',
 'wiki': u'on'}

User Agent was: Opera/9.64 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; de) Presto/2.1.1

System Information

Trac	0.11
Python	2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct 5 2008, 19:42:18) [GCC 4.3.2]
setuptools	0.6c9
SQLite	3.5.9
pysqlite	2.4.1
Genshi	0.5
mod_python	3.3.1
Pygments	0.10
Subversion	1.5.1 (r32289)
jQuery:	1.2.3

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 423, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 219, in dispatch
    data, content_type)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/web/chrome.py", line 726, in render_template
    stream.render(method, doctype=doctype, out=buffer)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/core.py", line 179, in render
    return encode(generator, method=method, encoding=encoding, out=out)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/output.py", line 61, in encode
    for chunk in iterator:
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/output.py", line 210, in __call__
    for kind, data, pos in stream:
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/output.py", line 592, in __call__
    for kind, data, pos in stream:
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/output.py", line 698, in __call__
    for kind, data, pos in chain(stream, [(None, None, None)]):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/output.py", line 532, in __call__
    for ev in stream:
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/core.py", line 283, in _ensure
    for event in stream:
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/core.py", line 283, in _ensure
    for event in stream:
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/template/base.py", line 569, in _include
    for event in stream:
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/template/markup.py", line 246, in _match
    for event in stream:
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/template/base.py", line 543, in _exec
    for event in stream:
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/template/base.py", line 533, in _eval
    for event in substream:
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/template/base.py", line 496, in _eval
    for kind, data, pos in stream:
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/template/base.py", line 558, in _flatten
    for event in self._flatten(substream, ctxt, **vars):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/template/base.py", line 558, in _flatten
    for event in self._flatten(substream, ctxt, **vars):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/template/base.py", line 551, in _flatten
    for event in stream:
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/template/directives.py", line 737, in __call__
    value = _eval_expr(expr, ctxt, **vars)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/template/base.py", line 286, in _eval_expr
    retval = expr.evaluate(ctxt)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/template/eval.py", line 180, in evaluate
    return eval(self.code, _globals, {'__data__': data})
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/templates/macros.rss", line 21, in <Expression '?'>
    <py:with vars="author = show_email_addresses and email_map and '@' not in author and email_map[author] or author">
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/genshi/template/eval.py", line 333, in lookup_item
    val = getattr(obj, key, UNDEFINED)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)