UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe3 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

[nrgmilk@…]

How to Reproduce

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

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User Agent was: Mozilla/5.0 (FreeBSD; U; FreeBSD 7; ja; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

System Information

Trac	0.11.ja1
Python	2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 29 2008, 18:16:55) [GCC 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD]]
setuptools	0.6c8
SQLite	3.5.6
pysqlite	2.3.5
Genshi	0.5.1
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/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.ja1-py2.5.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 424, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.ja1-py2.5.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 198, in dispatch
    resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.ja1-py2.5.egg/trac/about.py", line 72, in process_request
    'modified': unicode(value) != unicode(default)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe3 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

[trac-ja@…]

Wrong trac.

This problem can reproduce only Japanese editon, but not original Trac.

However, it will be happen when some config has default-value with non-ASCII string. I'm writing a patch.

[osimons]

Replying to trac-ja@…:

Wrong trac.

This problem can reproduce only Japanese editon, but not original Trac.

Right. Figured. Closing as invalid as far as the Trac project is concerned.