[ mailman-Patches-1437867 ] Bug: canonstr() with funny character

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Patches item #1437867, was opened at 2006-02-24 13:53
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Category: Web UI
Group: Mailman 2.1
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Hatuka*nezumi (hatukanezumi)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Bug: canonstr() with funny character

Initial Comment:
Utils.canonstr() generates traceback when user's
realname contains some unconvertible characters (\ufffd
etc.).

A patch is attached.


Tracebacks (line numbers have some offsets):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in
run_main
    main()
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line
176, in main
    change_options(mlist, category, subcat, cgidata, doc)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line
1497, in change_options
    newname = Utils.canonstr(newname,
mlist.preferred_language)
  File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 850,
in canonstr
    newstr = EMPTYSTRING.join(newparts)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte
0x8e in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)



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