Hello,
We at the German team have a similar error message when trying to commit a
translation:

'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xfc' in position 7: ordinal not in
range(128)

See this translation:
https://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/gucharmap/master/po/de/
Philipp

Am Di., 14. Sept. 2021 um 21:32 Uhr schrieb Matej Urban via gnome-i18n <
gnome-i18n@gnome.org>:

> Hello,
> im getting a similar error, but different encoding ... »'ascii' codec
> can't encode character '\u010d' in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)«.
> Is this me or the system?
> Hopefully it is the system, because I can not find the problem ;).
>
> Thank you.
> Matej
>
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 3:47 PM Rafael Fontenelle <rafae...@gnome.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Matej,
>>
>> Yes, it is related. If the system has no locale set (which usually is
>> UTF-8) then the default ASCII is used (depending on the distro,
>> obviously). When this ASCII-encoded system finds an UTF-8 special
>> character, like "é", "č" etc., these chars are not interpreted
>> correctly. I believe the error message you quoted is from
>> UnicodeDecodeError: search "UnicodeDecodeError" in
>> https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html#the-string-type
>>
>> Note: even if English interface is desired, the "en_US.UTF-8" locale
>> should be set.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Rafael Fontenelle
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 4:49 PM Matej Urban <matej.ur...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> > is error »'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u010d' in position 11:
>> ordinal not in range(128)«. related to UTF8 problem?
>> >
>> > Lately I get a lot of errors, and now I do not know, how to solve them.
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > Matej
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 3:24 PM Rafael Fontenelle <rafae...@gnome.org>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This is happens to all modules in all languages, and is being tracked
>> in this issue:
>> >>
>> >> https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/damned-lies/-/issues/246
>> >>
>> >> Beste regards,
>> >> Rafael Fontenelle
>> >>
>> >> Em seg, 19 de jul de 2021 10:13, Matej Urban via gnome-i18n <
>> gnome-i18n@gnome.org> escreveu:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hello,
>> >>> Lately I'm getting strange errors, that I can not make sense of.
>> Looking at the e.g. Sloveninan translation of evolution package in DL
>> https://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/evolution/gnome-40/po/sl/ it shows an
>> error that it is not in UTF8.
>> >>> But it is!
>> >>>
>> >>> Is there a way to find out, if there is maybe a character there,
>> that's causing the problems?
>> >>>
>> >>> Thank you,
>> >>> Matej
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