UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

[jdinunzio]

When I execute mr.bob, it fails because my name is José

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/mrbob", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('mr.bob==0.1.2', 'console_scripts', 'mrbob')()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/mrbob/cli.py", line 172, in main
    c.ask_questions()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/mrbob/configurator.py", line 231, in ask_questions
    self.variables[question.name] = question.ask(self)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/mrbob/configurator.py", line 303, in ask
    question = six.u("--> %s [%s]: ") % (self.question, self.default)

The code:

                # mrbob/configurator,py:301
                # prepare question
                if self.default:
                    question = six.u("--> %s [%s]: ") % (self.question, self.default)
                else:
                    question = six.u("--> %s: ") % self.question

The question is "Author's name" and the default is "José Dinuncio", which can't be converted to unicode, since six.u requires ASCII.

[simon-previdente]

I encountered the same problem. To solve it, I changed my git config :

$ git config --global user.name
Simon Prévidente

$ git config --global user.name "Simon PREVIDENTE" --replace-all

$ git config --global user.name
Simon PREVIDENTE

[jdinunzio]

Yes, another option is to use ~/.mrbob

[variables]
author.name = Jose Dinuncio

but ideally, mr.bob should accept unicode.

The proble is that six.u() requires ASCII in python 2.7. Maybe it could assume that the default values come in utf8?

[anuyens]

Thank's a lot, I've the same problem.... MrBob don't like André but Andre he like :-)