Erpnext: Error when sending emails with accented characters

[gbard]

Hello,

I'm getting a lot of errors in ERPNext because of the accented characters. Especially when sending e-mails. In French, we commonly use the "é" and it seems to be causing issues:

'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc9' in position 390: ordinal not in range(128)

As much as possible, I'm trying to remove the accented characters everywhere (Company names, account names, client names, etc.) but it's hard to remove them to avoid issues in e-mail.

Steps to reproduce: Send an e-mail with the character "é" in the subject line and in the body and check the e-mail queue / error log.

Thanks!

[joolsr]

I had a similar problem with accentuated characters like a tilde on an n in Spanish being removed from the contact's name from an email sent into ERPNext. I havent raised a bug as yet, but I think it could be linked

[joolsr]

looks like its been fixed today ;-) https://github.com/frappe/frappe/commit/22475a046c8d2da69e6f2158ed8e0f5c09072da4. thi is in Develop and as a hotfix so even running Master you should get this if you update now

[umairsy]

As confirmed by @mbauskar pull request mentioned above should resolve this issue. If it doesn't feel free to reopen this issue.

[gbard]

I confirm the issue seems to be fixed on latest update:

ERPNext: v8.6.3 (master)
Frappe Framework: v8.6.2 (master)