[Mailman-Users] unicode error

[Dan Phillips]

MM 2.1.3, Postfix 2.0.9, OS X

Password reminders sent out this morning generated the following error 
for all subscribers who have chosen Japanese as their language of 
choice:

> Oct 01 05:04:42 2003 (16972) Uncaught runner exception: decoding 
> Unicode is not supported
> Oct 01 05:04:42 2003 (16972) Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 110, in _oneloop
>     self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 160, in _onefile
>     keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Queue/OutgoingRunner.py", line 74, in 
> _dispose
>     self._func(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 146, in 
> process
>     deliveryfunc(mlist, msg, msgdata, envsender, refused, conn)
>   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 332, in 
> verpdeliver
>     bulkdeliver(mlist, msgcopy, msgdata, envsender, failures, conn)
>   File "/users/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 345, in 
> bulkdeliver
>     msgtext = msg.as_string()
>   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 113, in 
> as_string
>     g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
>   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 103, in 
> flatten
>     self._write(msg)
>   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 131, in 
> _write
>     self._dispatch(msg)
>   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 157, in 
> _dispatch
>     meth(msg)
>   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 198, in 
> _handle_text
>     payload = cset.body_encode(payload)
>   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Charset.py", line 386, in 
> body_encode
>     s = self.convert(s)
>   File "/users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Charset.py", line 269, in 
> convert
>     return unicode(s, self.input_codec).encode(self.output_codec)
> TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported
>
> Oct 01 05:04:42 2003 (16972) SHUNTING: 
> 1065002402.120966+15739cc63fad35075a9d11d4cab4c282919d2340
>

AFAIK, this has not happened before; at least there was no problem on 
September 1. The only thing changed since then has been updating to 
2.1.3. Unicode support is certainly included in OS X.