1262079 - [traceback] Unicode error in celery task in group invites

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Participation Infrastructure :: Phonebook, defect)

Description

[Tasos Katsoulas [:tasos]]

A celery task responsible for sending out invitations to join a group is producing the following traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/www/mozillians.org/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/celery/app/trace.py", line 240, in trace_task
    R = retval = fun(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/data/www/mozillians.org/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/newrelic-2.52.0.40/newrelic/hooks/application_celery.py", line 66, in wrapper
    return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/data/www/mozillians.org/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/celery/app/trace.py", line 438, in __protected_call__
    return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/data/www/mozillians.org/mozillians/mozillians/groups/tasks.py", line 188, in notify_curators_invitation_accepted
    subject = _(subject_msg.format(invite.redeemer.full_name, invite.group.name))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u017b' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

Comment 1

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians

https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians/commit/74b60cde37f412c65ca3a1b87689536a8e9bed33
[fix bug 1262079] Fix unicode error in group tasks.

https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians/commit/4cfc4524de17876e4d439a231a2aae25be2d7c49
Merge pull request #1427 from akatsoulas/1262079-unicode

[fix bug 1262079] Fix unicode error in group tasks.

Comment 2

[John Giannelos [:nemo-yiannis]]

Verified on stage:

Prod:
* Reproduced error in prod

Stage:
* Added a new invitation for the failing full name
* Sent an invitation
* No errors, emails are Unicode encoded