[MM3-users] Re: Held for notification - runner exception: 'ascii' codec can't encode character

On 1/2/22 11:18 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:

Please do send me the shunted .pck. what is going on is this is an English language list which has character set ascii and the notice for some reason has non-ascii, possbbly the Subject: or the user's display name has non-ascii. But possibly the message itself is defective.

In any case, I'd like to get the shunted message to see if there's something we should fix.

Thanks for sending me the shunted .pck. It turns out I didn't need it. Had I looked more closely at the Traceback, I would have realized that the issue is that the list's list:admin:action:post template contains non-ascii. In particular, the character in position 5 is ’ which is a unicode right_single_quote, not an ascii apostrophe.

There may be other unicode fancy quotes ad well.

You can fix the template to contain only ascii or you can set the character set for English to utf-8 by adding

[language.en]
charset: utf-8

to mailman.cfg. The downside of the latter is that outgoing message bodies will always be base64 encoded which generally precludes grepping mailboxes to find things.

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