Michael Terry created an issue #374:
When committing a change to my doap file, I noticed the following error:
remote: Traceback (most recent call last):
remote: File "/home/admin/bin/git/extract-doap-info", line 49, in <module>
remote: print >> fd, shortdesc
remote: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)