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
22880	UnicodeDecode error when running `makemessages` (python 3.4.1)	Vidir Valberg Gudmundsson	nobody	"Made this model for testing:

{{{#!python
from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _


class Foo(models.Model):
    bar = models.CharField(
        verbose_name=_('bar'),
        max_length=255
    )
}}}

`django-admin makemessages -l da` creates the following `django.po` file:

{{{#!po
$ cat locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/django.po
# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
#
#, fuzzy
msgid """"
msgstr """"
""Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n""
""Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n""
""POT-Creation-Date: 2014-06-22 19:49+0000\n""
""PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n""
""Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n""
""Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n""
""Language: \n""
""MIME-Version: 1.0\n""
""Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n""
""Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n""
""Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n""

#: models.py:7
msgid ""bar""
msgstr """"
}}}

Changing the last line (doing the translation of ""bar"") to this:

{{{#!po
msgstr ""æøå""
}}}

Results in this error when running `django-admin makemessages -l da` again:

{{{
processing locale da
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""./../manage.py"", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File ""/Users/valberg/.virtualenvs/django17/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py"", line 385, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File ""/Users/valberg/.virtualenvs/django17/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py"", line 377, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File ""/Users/valberg/.virtualenvs/django17/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py"", line 288, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File ""/Users/valberg/.virtualenvs/django17/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py"", line 337, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File ""/Users/valberg/.virtualenvs/django17/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py"", line 532, in handle
    return self.handle_noargs(**options)
  File ""/Users/valberg/.virtualenvs/django17/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/makemessages.py"", line 295, in handle_noargs
    self.write_po_file(potfile, locale)
  File ""/Users/valberg/.virtualenvs/django17/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/makemessages.py"", line 397, in write_po_file
    msgs, errors, status = popen_wrapper(args)
  File ""/Users/valberg/.virtualenvs/django17/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/management/utils.py"", line 25, in popen_wrapper
    output, errors = p.communicate()
  File ""/Users/valberg/.pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/subprocess.py"", line 959, in communicate
    stdout, stderr = self._communicate(input, endtime, timeout)
  File ""/Users/valberg/.pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/subprocess.py"", line 1658, in _communicate
    self.stdout.encoding)
  File ""/Users/valberg/.pyenv/versions/3.4.1/lib/python3.4/subprocess.py"", line 887, in _translate_newlines
    data = data.decode(encoding)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 663: ordinal not in range(128)
}}}

I'm not sure whether this is a django error or a python one."	Cleanup/optimization	closed	Documentation	1.7-beta-2	Normal	fixed			Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0