[Bug 647890] New: UnicodeEncodeError when installing tarball

["sysadmin" (bugzilla.gnome.org) <bugzilla gnome org>]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647890
  sysadmin | Other | unspecified

           Summary: UnicodeEncodeError when installing tarball
    Classification: Infrastructure
           Product: sysadmin
           Version: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: Other
        AssignedTo: sysadmin-maint gnome bugs
        ReportedBy: bugzilla tecnocode co uk
         QAContact: sysadmin-maint gnome bugs
     GNOME version: ---


When installing the tarball for libgdata-0.8.1, the following error occurred:

[pwithnall@master ~]$ ftpadmin install libgdata-0.8.1.tar.bz2 
Gathering information and sorting on version: ., done
Preparing installation of libgdata-0.8.1.tar.bz2:
 - Checking consistency: ......, done
 - Checking previous tarball: ......, done
 - NEWS, done (diff, 39 lines)
 - ChangeLog, done (diff, 433 lines)
 - Copying tar.bz2, done
 - Creating tar.gz from tar.bz2: ......, done
 - Creating sha256sum, done

      Module: libgdata
     Version: 0.8.1   (previous version: 0.8.0)
 Destination: /ftp/pub/GNOME/sources/libgdata/0.8/

Install libgdata? [Y/n] y
Installing libgdata-0.8.1.tar.bz2:
 - Moving files: ....., done
 - Updating LATEST-IS, done
 - Updating known versions, done
 - Removing original tarball, done
Doing notifications:
 - Informing ftp-release-listTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 1613, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 1598, in main
    options.func(options, parser)
  File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 1345, in cmd_install
    module.install(unattended=options.unattended)
  File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 977, in install
    self.inform()
  File "/usr/local/bin/ftpadmin", line 1034, in inform
    print >>mail, textwrap.fill(paragraph)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2014' in position
92: ordinal not in range(128)

I guess this is probably because I used Unicode characters in the NEWS file.

-- 
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are watching the QA contact of the bug.
You are watching the assignee of the bug.