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UnicodeDecode Error

See original GitHub issue

Got this problem when I tried to update an issue with a new comment:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/yash/.pyenv/versions/2.7.10/bin/statuspage", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(cli())
  File "/Users/yash/.pyenv/versions/2.7.10/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 716, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/yash/.pyenv/versions/2.7.10/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 696, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/Users/yash/.pyenv/versions/2.7.10/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1060, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "/Users/yash/.pyenv/versions/2.7.10/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 889, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/Users/yash/.pyenv/versions/2.7.10/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 534, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/yash/.pyenv/versions/2.7.10/lib/python2.7/site-packages/statuspage/statuspage.py", line 73, in update
    run_update(name=name, token=token, org=org)
  File "/Users/yash/.pyenv/versions/2.7.10/lib/python2.7/site-packages/statuspage/statuspage.py", line 211, in run_update
    if is_same_content(content, base64.b64decode(index.content)):
  File "/Users/yash/.pyenv/versions/2.7.10/lib/python2.7/site-packages/statuspage/statuspage.py", line 478, in is_same_content
    return sha1(c1).hexdigest() == sha1(c2).hexdigest()
  File "/Users/yash/.pyenv/versions/2.7.10/lib/python2.7/site-packages/statuspage/statuspage.py", line 476, in sha1
    c = c.encode("utf-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf0 in position 2735: ordinal not in range(128)

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martignonicommented, Aug 2, 2017

I can now reproduce the bug:

Create a new issue with some UTF8 character in the title and/or the description
Update status in the usual way (statuspage update in terminal)
Update works correctly, and status page displays the issue correctly (with UTF8 chars)
Make any issue modification (in the same issue or another) and update status
Error occurs
Manually edit index.html, changing the UTF8 chars with ASCII chars (e.g. é -> e, à -> a), save file
Update status again in the usual way (statuspage update in terminal)
No error is displayed

So the errors seems to occur when a UTF8 char is present in the index.html file and statuspage.py tries to read it.

Maybe this error: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3235386/python-using-format-on-a-unicode-escaped-string

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martignonicommented, Jun 17, 2017

Just getting this error too, with Python 2.7.13.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/statuspage", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(cli())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/statuspage/statuspage.py", line 73, in update
    run_update(name=name, token=token, org=org)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/statuspage/statuspage.py", line 211, in run_update
    if is_same_content(content, base64.b64decode(index.content)):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/statuspage/statuspage.py", line 478, in is_same_content
    return sha1(c1).hexdigest() == sha1(c2).hexdigest()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/statuspage/statuspage.py", line 476, in sha1
    c = c.encode("utf-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 2089: ordinal not in range(128)

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