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

On Jan 2, 2022, at 3:47 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:

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.

Ah hah! Right you are. I removed the offending fancy apostrophe. What about that traceback pointed to the template? (Is it something I could have figured out?)

Is it possible to filter out UTF-8 chars from the templates when they are saved in Postorius?

Thanks again, Seth