[Localization] codec can't decode byte (was: Localization efforts needed)

[Alexander Dupuy]

Chris writes:
> Please log onto the Pootle server and reviewing your favorite language(s).
>   

I was attempting to update my Projects to include the 0.84 release 
project (although I'm not 100% certain that these are the ones you are 
talking about, as opposed to the the unversioned Sucrose, Fructose etc.) 
and I got the following unfortunately familiar error:

Error 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 4: ordinal not in 
range(128)

Sayamindu wrote (in July 2008):
> Apologies for the delay in fixing this - apparently a user had
> registered with a non ASCII username which was choking Pootle. Had to
> find it out and disable it. It should work properly now.

There is a Pootle bug about this 
(http://bugs.locamotion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=954) but it doesn't have 
much in the way of details or anything...  I'm cc'ing Friedel Wolff, who 
was assigned that ticket, in case he has any suggestions or comments (or 
in case you can provide him with more details on this problem).


Sayamindu later (in August 2008) wrote:
> For cases like yours, (and Bastien's), please mail
> translate at rt.laptop.org to ensure that this does not get lost in my
> mailbox. :-)

I am cc'ing that address as well, although I'm not sure that it is 
relevant anymore or even used now that the OLPC/Sugar Labs Pootle 
instance has moved over to Sugar Labs.

@alex

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