UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u200b' in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)

[markus@…]

How to Reproduce

While doing a GET operation on /admin/versioncontrol/repository, Trac issued an internal error.

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Request parameters:

{'cat_id': u'versioncontrol', 'panel_id': u'repository', 'path_info': None}

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

System Information

Trac	1.2.2
Babel	0.9.6
Docutils	0.7
Genshi	0.7 (with speedups)
GIT	2.21.0
pysqlite	2.6.0
Python	2.7.5 (default, Jul 13 2018, 13:06:57) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28)]
setuptools	2.1
SQLite	3.7.17
jQuery	1.11.3
jQuery UI	1.11.4
jQuery Timepicker	1.5.5

Enabled Plugins

Interface Customization

shared-htdocs
shared-templates
site-htdocs	common, site
site-templates

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/main.py", line 623, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/main.py", line 239, in dispatch
    resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/admin/web_ui.py", line 109, in process_request
    provider.render_admin_panel(req, cat_id, panel_id, path_info)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/versioncontrol/admin.py", line 342, in render_admin_panel
    for (reponame, info) in all_repos.iteritems())
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/versioncontrol/admin.py", line 342, in <genexpr>
    for (reponame, info) in all_repos.iteritems())
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/versioncontrol/admin.py", line 360, in _extend_info
    repos = RepositoryManager(self.env).get_repository(reponame)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/versioncontrol/api.py", line 602, in get_repository
    repoinfo.copy())
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tracopt/versioncontrol/git/git_fs.py", line 368, in get_repository
    use_committer_time=self.use_committer_time,
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tracopt/versioncontrol/git/git_fs.py", line 493, in __init__
    git_fs_encoding=git_fs_encoding)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tracopt/versioncontrol/git/PyGIT.py", line 233, in __init__
    i = Storage(repo, log, git_bin, git_fs_encoding, rev_cache)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tracopt/versioncontrol/git/PyGIT.py", line 402, in __init__
    if not os.path.exists(__git_file_path()):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/genericpath.py", line 18, in exists
    os.stat(path)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u200b' in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)

[anonymous]

Is LANG empty? Set it to a UTF-8 locale. See ​https://bugs.python.org/issue25867 and ​StackOverflow.

[Jun Omae]

Is LANG empty? Set it to a UTF-8 locale. See ​https://bugs.python.org/issue25867 and ​StackOverflow.

Right. That's an InstallationIssue. Set LANG, LC_CTYPE, LC_ALL environment variable to convert Unicode filenames to filesystem names. ascii encoding is used if the environment is empty.