RHN Satellite v5.4 returns exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError if config files contain german umlauts (ä,ö,ü, etc.)

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Issue

  • On RHN Satellite v5.4, under configuration files, if any of the  config file is having german umlauts (ä,ö,ü, etc.) and if we schdedule a  file comparison from the web interface of satellite then it fails with following traceback:          

    exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError : 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 150: ordinal not in range(128)

Environment

  • Red Hat Network Satellite v 5.4

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