[Bug 33959] New: 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)

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33959

           Summary: 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)
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638004
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: medium
         Component: butterfly
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: kvikende at fsfe.org
         QAContact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org


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.

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