bug-buddy unicode compile error 2.14.2.1

[Morris Walton <morris walton gmail com>]

Whew,

I am working my way through the garnome build, and I've hit this 
bug-buddy problem:

[===== NOW BUILDING:    bug-buddy-2.14.0        =====]
       [fetch] complete for bug-buddy.
       [checksum] complete for bug-buddy.
       [extract] complete for bug-buddy.
       [patch] complete for bug-buddy.
       [fixup] complete for bug-buddy.
       [configure] complete for bug-buddy.
==> Running make in work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0'
make  all-recursive
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0'
Making all in po
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/po'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/po'
Making all in pixmaps
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/pixmaps'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/pixmaps'
Making all in src
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/src'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/src'
Making all in bugzilla
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/bugzilla'
Making all in gnome
make[5]: Entering directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/bugzilla/gnome'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[5]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/bugzilla/gnome'
Making all in ximian
make[5]: Entering directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/bugzilla/ximian'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[5]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/bugzilla/ximian'
make[5]: Entering directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/bugzilla'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[5]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/bugzilla'
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/bugzilla'
Making all in docs
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/docs'
if ! test -d es/; then mkdir es/; fi
case "." in /*) sd=".";; *) sd="../.";; esac; \
if [ -f "C/bug-buddy.xml" ]; then d="../"; else d="$sd/"; fi; \
(cd es/ && \
 `which xml2po` -e -p \
   "${d}es/es.po" \
   "${d}C/bug-buddy.xml" > bug-buddy.xml.tmp && \
   cp bug-buddy.xml.tmp bug-buddy.xml && rm -f bug-buddy.xml.tmp)
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/mwalton/garnome/bin/xml2po", line 724, in ?
   doSerialize(doc)
 File "/home/mwalton/garnome/bin/xml2po", line 482, in doSerialize
   outtxt += doSerialize(child)
 File "/home/mwalton/garnome/bin/xml2po", line 476, in doSerialize
   (starttag, content, endtag, translation) = processElementTag(node, 
repl, 1)
 File "/home/mwalton/garnome/bin/xml2po", line 399, in processElementTag
   (starttag, content, endtag, translation) = processElementTag(child, 
myrepl, 0)
 File "/home/mwalton/garnome/bin/xml2po", line 395, in processElementTag
   myrepl.append(processElementTag(child, myrepl, 1))
 File "/home/mwalton/garnome/bin/xml2po", line 407, in processElementTag
   translation = getTranslation(outtxt, isSpacePreserveNode(node))
 File "/home/mwalton/garnome/bin/xml2po", line 223, in getTranslation
   return gt.ugettext(text.decode('utf-8'))
 File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gettext.py", line 195, in ugettext
   return unicode(tmsg, self._charset)
TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported
make[4]: *** [es/bug-buddy.xml] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/docs'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy/work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0'
make[1]: *** [build-work/main.d/bug-buddy-2.14.0/Makefile] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/mwalton/code/pkg/garnome-2.14.2.1/desktop/bug-buddy'
make: *** [paranoid-install] Error 2
[mwalton columbia desktop]$


I've googled around , w/o any luck.  Any advice?

Thanks,

Morris