[ mailman-Bugs-1246004 ] 2.1.6 bin/arch bombs out on unicodeerror

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Bugs item #1246004, was opened at 2005-07-27 15:19
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Category: mail delivery
Group: 2.1 (stable)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Auke Kok (sofar)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: 2.1.6 bin/arch bombs out on unicodeerror

Initial Comment:

Running bin/arch on my i18n- development list I got
this beauty:

Updating HTML for article 2390
Updating HTML for article 2391
Pickling archive state into
/var/mailman/archives/private/xfce-i18n/pipermail.pck
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/arch", line 200, in ?
    main()
  File "bin/arch", line 188, in main
    archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py",
line 573, in processUnixMailbox
    self.add_article(a)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py",
line 625, in add_article
    article.parentID = parentID =
self.get_parent_info(arch, article)
  File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py",
line 657, in get_parent_info
    article.subject)
  File
"/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line
311, in getOldestArticle
    self.__openIndices(archive)
  File
"/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line
251, in __openIndices
    t = DumbBTree(os.path.join(arcdir, archive + '-' + i))
  File
"/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line
65, in __init__
    self.load()
  File
"/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line
179, in load
    self.__sort(dirty=1)
  File
"/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line
73, in __sort
    self.sorted.sort()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte
0xc3 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)


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