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-rw-r--r--Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py4
-rw-r--r--NEWS4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py b/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py
index 531ab1d7..81e27214 100644
--- a/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py
+++ b/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ class _Syslog:
logf.write(msg + '\n')
except UnicodeError:
# Python 2.4 may fail to write 8bit (non-ascii) characters
+ # Also, if msg is unicode with non-ascii, quopri.encodestring()
+ # will throw UnicodeEncodeError, so avoid that.
+ if isinstance(msg, unicode):
+ msg = msg.encode('iso-8859-1', 'replace')
logf.write(quopri.encodestring(msg) + '\n')
# For the ultimate in convenience
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dfe8843f..41b9ce27 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
Bug Fixes and other patches
+ - Fixed a bug where non-ascii characters in the real name in a subscription
+ request could throw a UnicodeEncodeError upon subscription approval and
+ perhaps in other situations too. (LP: 1047100)
+
- The query fragments send_unsub_notifications_to_list_owner and
send_unsub_ack_to_this_batch will now assume default values if not set
in mass unsubscribe URLs. (LP: #1032378)