979176 - UnicodeEncodeError when sending watch email for page with non-ASCII unicode title

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect)

Description

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

[mdn] [[e-mail]] Error: Task tidings.events._fire_task (a6afaabb-3daa-471a-80d3-9a73244c0e20): UnicodeEncodeError('ascii', u'\xbfPor qu\xe9 Persona?', 0, 1, 'ordinal not in range(128)')


Task tidings.events._fire_task with id a6afaabb-3daa-471a-80d3-9a73244c0e20 raised exception:
"UnicodeEncodeError('ascii', u'\\xbfPor qu\\xe9 Persona?', 0, 1, 'ordinal not in range(128)')"


Task was called with args: (<wiki.events.EditDocumentEvent object at 0x5886110>,) kwargs: {'exclude': <User: Bryant>}.

The contents of the full traceback was:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/vendor/packages/celery/celery/execute/trace.py", line 181, in trace_task
    R = retval = fun(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/vendor/src/django-tidings/tidings/events.py", line 132, in _fire_task
    for m in self._mails(self._users_watching(exclude=exclude)):
  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/apps/devmo/email_utils.py", line 154, in emails_with_users_and_watches
    yield _make_mail(locale, u, w)
  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/apps/devmo/email_utils.py", line 70, in wrapper
    return f(settings.WIKI_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/data/www/developer.mozilla.org/kuma/apps/devmo/email_utils.py", line 136, in _make_mail
    subject.format(**context_vars),
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbf' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Comment 1

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

Likely candidate is this page, with the title '¿Por qué Mozilla Persona?'

https://developer.mozilla.org/es/docs/Mozilla/Persona/Why_Persona

Code is slightly different, at:

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/blob/master/kuma/core/email_utils.py#L104-L109

It still needed testing to ensure that it works with non-ASCII unicode strings.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.