= bug description =

Trac detected an internal error:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa8' in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

Note that the following plugins seem to be involved: IniAdmin, TracBzr, TracCustomFieldAdmin, TracGit, TracMercurial, TracTocMacro, tracvatar Please report this issue to the plugin maintainer.

File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 525, in _dispatch_request
dispatcher.dispatch(req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 267, in dispatch
content_type)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/trac/web/chrome.py", line 841, in render_template
stream |= self._filter_stream(req, method, filename, stream, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Genshi-0.6-py2.6.egg/genshi/core.py", line 132, in or
return Stream(_ensure(function(self)), serializer=self.serializer)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/trac/web/chrome.py", line 997, in inner
data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tracvatar/web_ui.py", line 56, in filter_stream
stream |= f
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Genshi-0.6-py2.6.egg/genshi/core.py", line 132, in or
return Stream(_ensure(function(self)), serializer=self.serializer)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tracvatar/web_ui.py", line 188, in <lambda>
self.ticket_reporter_size)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tracvatar/web_ui.py", line 77, in _generate_avatar
email_hash = author_data.get(author, None) or self._gravatar(author)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tracvatar/web_ui.py", line 257, in _gravatar
return hashlib.md5(email.lower()).hexdigest()

= bug analysis =

Probably caused by tracvatar plugin, tracvatar.

= fix recommendation =

Delete the ticket.
It can not be deleted from the web-ui and need to be removed using
$ trac-admin TRAC_ENV ticket 8457

Or something similar.