UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf8' in position 22: ordinal not in range(128)

[admin]

How to Reproduce

While doing a POST operation on /newticket, Trac issued an internal error.

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Request parameters:

{'__FORM_TOKEN': u'22c6b2179eb25d2064c81863',
 'field_description': u'Google analytic setup',
 'field_drp_resources': u'',
 'field_milestone': u'milestone1',
 'field_owner': u'Tina Juul M\xf8ller-Nielsen',
 'field_remaining_time': u'3',
 'field_reporter': u'admin',
 'field_sprint': u'T2T sprint 1',
 'field_summary': u'Ticket2Travel',
 'field_type': u'task',
 'submit': u'Create ticket'}

User Agent was: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8

System Information

Trac	0.11.7
Python	2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
setuptools	0.6c9
SQLite	3.3.4
pysqlite	2.3.2
Genshi	0.5.1
Subversion	1.5.6 (r36142)
Agilo	1.3.0.3-pro
jQuery:	1.2.6

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Agilo Installer\Agilo\lib\site-packages\trac-0.11.7-py2.5-win32.egg\trac\web\main.py", line 450, in _dispatch_request
  File "C:\Agilo Installer\Agilo\lib\site-packages\trac-0.11.7-py2.5-win32.egg\trac\web\main.py", line 252, in dispatch
  File "C:\Agilo Installer\Agilo\lib\site-packages\trac-0.11.7-py2.5-win32.egg\trac\web\api.py", line 49, in __init__
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf8' in position 22: ordinal not in range(128)

[Christian Boos]

If the error is reproducible, it would be interesting that you modify the line 252 to add the to_unicode(e) conversion, the same way it is done line 248, then see what the actual error was.

See source:tags/trac-0.11.7/trac/web/main.py@#L252​.

[Christian Boos]

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