Trachours won't function with non-ascii chars in database fields.

[Jeff Hammel]

The plugin terminates and trac shows an internal error when we have tickets with german umlauts in relevant fields:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

​Here is some general information on this issue from the edgewall wiki.

This is a moved ticket. The original ticket and all comments can be found at ​http://trac.openplans.org/hours/ticket/12

[olaf.meeuwissen@…]

Experienced the same symptoms when accessing the /hours tab after I had written some hours on the sole ticket in a test setup. The /hours tab displayed fine before I added the ticket and before I wrote hours to the ticket.

The test environment was served with tracd from a shell environment with a mixed bag of locale settings. Changing LC_TIME to C made the problem go away, at the expense on non-localised times in the /hours tab.

LC_TIME=C tracd [options] <env>

[y.kerleguer@…]

Experienced the same symptoms when adding hours during some months on a french installation : F'evrier, Ao^{ut and D'ecembre.}

[Adrian Fritz]

At #4420 k0s points:

(In [5374]) use to_unicode helper function; hopefully fixes #4420