Bug 33959 - 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)
Summary: Butterfly fails often with text.py:175:_signal_text_received:UnicodeDecodeErr...
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: Telepathy
Classification: Unclassified
Component: butterfly (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Linux (All)
: medium major
Assignee: Telepathy bugs list
QA Contact: Telepathy bugs list
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
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Reported: 2011-02-06 01:57 UTC by kvikende
Modified: 2019-12-03 19:47 UTC (History)
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Description kvikende 2011-02-06 01:57:38 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Brian Pepple 2011-05-12 10:02:56 UTC 
Some more info to help debug this:
abrt version: 1.1.17
architecture: i686
cmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/libexec/telepathy-butterfly
component: telepathy-butterfly
executable: /usr/libexec/telepathy-butterfly
kernel: 2.6.38-1.fc15.i686.PAE
package: telepathy-butterfly-0.5.15-3.fc15
reason: text.py:169:_signal_text_received:UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec
can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)
release: Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)
time: 1301057959
uid: 500

backtrace
-----
text.py:169:_signal_text_received:UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't
decode byte 0xc3 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/papyon/client.py", line 517, in event
    self._dispatch(method_name, *args[:-1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/papyon/event/__init__.py", line 44, in
_dispatch
    if event_handler._dispatch_event(name, *args):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/papyon/event/__init__.py", line 65, in
_dispatch_event
    handler(*params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/butterfly/connection.py", line 480, in
on_oim_messages_fetched
    channel.offline_message_received(message)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/butterfly/channel/im.py", line 194, in
offline_message_received
    self._signal_text_received(id, timestamp, handle, type, 0,
message.display_name, text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/butterfly/channel/text.py", line 169,
in _signal_text_received
    dbus.String('content'): dbus.String(text)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3: ordinal
not in range(128)

Local variables in innermost frame:
sender: <butterfly.handle.ButterflyContactHandle object at 0x8a760cc>
text: 'jad\xc3\xa5 allt \xc3\xa4r bra, min mobil \xc3\xa4r trasig dock
s\xc3\xa5 kan inte svara'
self: <butterfly.channel.im.ButterflyImChannel at
/org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Connection/butterfly/msn/christian_2ejoensson_40gmail_2ecom/TextChannel1
at 0x8a8854c>
sender_nick: u'callesbrevlada@hotmail.com'
headers: dbus.Dictionary({dbus.String(u'pending-message-id'): dbus.UInt32(0L),
dbus.String(u'message-received'): dbus.UInt64(1300985290L),
dbus.String(u'sender-nickname'): dbus.String(u'callesbrevlada@hotmail.com'),
dbus.String(u'message-type'): dbus.UInt32(0L), dbus.String(u'message-sender'):
dbus.UInt32(9L)}, signature=dbus.Signature('sv'))
flags: 0
timestamp: 1300985290.0
type: 0
id: 0
Comment 2 Damien Gombault 2011-11-10 09:04:16 UTC 
I get this same crash when I receive offline messages when I am connecting to my MSN account.
Comment 3 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 19:47:03 UTC 
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