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

[Chris Leonard]

Dupuy,

Yes that is a familiar error message.  As I recall, it can occur when a user
(any user, not just the one getting the error) creates a username with
non-ASCII characters.   The presence of that non-ASCII username in the user
database produces that error message for any user that touches the user
database in any way (e.g. by logging in).

I have identified the user (with a username in Arabic script) and I will
reach out to explain that ironically, the older version of Pootle we use has
this limitation in the use of native scripts for usernames.  I will remove
the problematic username and ask them nicely to make do with an ASCII
username.  I beleive that this is how Sayamindu fixed things the last time
this occurred on the OLPC Pootle server.

cjl


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Alexander Dupuy <alex.dupuy at mac.com>wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> mailto:alex.dupuy at mac.com
>
>
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