Butterfly fails often with text.py:175:_signal_text_received:UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
Submitted by kvi..@..fe.org
Assigned to Telepathy bugs list
Description
This might be Fedora specific (but I don't think so as I have memories of this happening on Debian as well).
Sometimes when receiving a message in Empathy, the crash detecting utility on Fedora, ABRT, detects a crash in Telepathy because of some way the strings are handled. The specific crash is
text.py:175:_signal_text_received:UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
and as I recall the issue is with e-mails and not, as you would think, messages with special characters.
The latest report is that this happens on the package telepathy-butterfly-0.5.14-1.fc14. I couldn't decide which version this affected as I didn't find 0.5.14 in the list here in Bugzilla.
The bug report in Fedora is found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638004 , there you will also find a backtrace if you need one.