UnicodeEncodeError: ('ascii', u'repo-\u200bsqliteconnector', 5, 6, 'ordinal not in range(128)')

[2.andrey.d@…]

How to Reproduce

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

working server: ubuntu 9.10 x86_64

Request parameters:

{}

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.99 Safari/533.4

System Information

Trac	0.12
Genshi	0.6
mod_python	3.3.1
pysqlite	2.4.1
Python	2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec 7 2009, 18:59:58) [GCC 4.4.1]
setuptools	0.6c9
SQLite	3.6.16
Subversion	1.6.5 (r38866)
jQuery	1.4.2

Enabled Plugins

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/main.py", line 513, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/main.py", line 235, in dispatch
    resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/timeline/web_ui.py", line 220, in process_request
    format='rss')
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/href.py", line 168, in <lambda>
    self._derived[name] = lambda *args, **kw: self(name, *args, **kw)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/href.py", line 162, in __call__
    href += '?' + unicode_urlencode(params)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/util/text.py", line 118, in unicode_urlencode
    k = quote_plus(str(k))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u200b' in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)

[Remy Blank]

Anything special in recent events in the timeline? It looks like a URL parameter name has a zero-width space. Do you have named (i.e. non-default) repositories? Does one of them have non-ASCII characters?

[2.andrey.d@…]

No. non-ascii symbols in repository names; no special in timelines. Server locale set to Ukrainian (UTF-8)

[2.andrey.d@…]

Replying to 2.andrey.d@…:

No. non-ascii symbols in repository names; no special in timelines. Server locale set to Ukrainian (UTF-8)

Sorry, I had to reinstall Trac :(

Some additional details: # easy_install Trac==0.12 into: /trac (owner www-data:www:data) connection to DB via sqlite svn: /svn (owner www-data:www:data)

Repositories were added via TracRepositoryAdmin (no changes in trac.ini)

no non-ascii symbols in any names/params etc…

[Christian Boos]

If you're familiar with Python, I suggest you install from source (TracDownload#Installingversionsfromcheckouts), then add a self.log.debug("timeline args %r", (<the list of arguments to href.timeline>) in timeline.py before line 220. If you're not, then prepare an install from source anyway and wait for the patch doing the above ;-)

[2.andrey.d@…]

[root@srv]# apt-get install Trac
[root@srv]# apt-get remote Trac
[root@srv]# easyinstall Trac=0.12

Now TracTimeline works fine with same (2) repos..
bug)

[Christian Boos]

Good ;-)

If the problem happens again (eventually for someone else), then please provide us with the information requested in comment:4 and then reopen.