id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
15774	UnicodeDecodeError with makemessages	Dirk Eschler	nobody	"Running makemessages in the project folder throws a UnicodeDecodeError here with django-1.3. Everything works fine with django-1.2.

{{{
$ ./manage.py makemessages -l de
processing language de
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""./manage.py"", line 11, in <module>
    execute_manager(settings)
  File ""/path/to/django/core/management/__init__.py"", line 438, in execute_manager
    utility.execute()
  File ""/path/to/django/core/management/__init__.py"", line 379, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File ""/path/to/django/core/management/base.py"", line 191, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File ""/path/to/django/core/management/base.py"", line 220, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File ""/path/to/django/core/management/base.py"", line 351, in handle
    return self.handle_noargs(**options)
  File ""/path/to/django/core/management/commands/makemessages.py"", line 365, in handle_noargs
    make_messages(locale, domain, verbosity, process_all, extensions, symlinks, ignore_patterns, no_wrap, no_obsolete)
  File ""/path/to/django/core/management/commands/makemessages.py"", line 233, in make_messages
    f.write(templatize(src, orig_file[2:]))
  File ""/path/to/django/utils/translation/__init__.py"", line 127, in templatize
    return _trans.templatize(src, origin)
  File ""/path/to/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py"", line 450, in templatize
    content = u''.join(comment)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 284: ordinal not in range(128)
}}}

Is this in any way related to the changes made in project level translation handling mentioned in the 1.3 release notes? I'm not sure if i understand them correctly, does it mean that project level should be avoided in favour of app level translations in general? Adding the project locale folder to LOCALE_PATHS doesn't make a difference by the way, same UnicodeDecodeError.
"	Bug	closed	Internationalization	1.3	Normal	duplicate		eschler@… james@…	Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0