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
19397	UnicodeDecodeError on binary file when using custom project template/skeleton	gw.2012@…	nobody	"There is a regression in current development Django 1.5 version when using `startproject` (and `startapp`) with custom project/app template/skeleton directory.

In Django 1.4 the following worked flawlessly, but in current master version an error happens during processing of binary files (that should imho not be parsed if not explicitly requested). Steps to repeat:

{{{
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages testdj15; cd testdj15/; . bin/activate
...
$ pip install git+http://github.com/django/django.git
...
$ mkdir skeleton; dd if=/dev/urandom of=skeleton/test.png bs=1M count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.0850216 s, 12.3 MB/s
$ django-admin.py startproject --template skeleton abcproject
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x93 in position 3: invalid start byte
$ ls -al abcproject/test.png skeleton/test.png
ls: cannot access abcproject/test.png: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 gw gw 1048576 Nov 30 13:47 skeleton/test.png
}}}"	Bug	closed	Core (Management commands)	dev	Release blocker	fixed	project template, skeleton, utf8		Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0