Michael Heydekamp <my@freexp.de> wrote on 02.02.04:
cronpass.txt has not been sent out this month. Can anybody explain what's going wrong here?
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Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/mailpasswds", line 238, in ? main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/mailpasswds", line 214, in main text += (header + '\n' + NL.join(table)) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xdf in position 43: ordinal not in range(128) ----------8<----------
As there was again no answer to this I did some investigation, found that mailman.mo is the reason for this problem, plowed through a 180k diff file which contained all the changes I made to mailman.po and isolated the offending line: ----------8<---------- @@ -11693,7 +11691,7 @@ # Mailman/Cgi/confirm.py:203 Mailman/Cgi/options.py:658 #: cron/mailpasswds:198 msgid "Password // URL" -msgstr "Passwort // URL" +msgstr "Paßwort // URL" # Mailman/Deliverer.py:103 #: cron/mailpasswds:221 ----------8<---------- Which means that this line (which is appended to cronpass.txt) may not contain the character "ß" - or probably even no 8bit characters at all. Well, because...? Anyway, looks like a bug to me. Michael