Yowsup: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

[bzero]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/bob01/venv/bin/yowsup-cli", line 4, in
import('pkg_resources').run_script('yowsup2==2.4.103', 'yowsup-cli')
File "/home/bob01/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 719, in run_script
self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
File "/home/bob01/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 1511, in run_script
exec(script_code, namespace, namespace)
File "/home/bob01/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yowsup2-2.4.103-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/yowsup-cli", line 368, in

File "/home/bob01/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yowsup2-2.4.103-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/yowsup-cli", line 268, in process

File "/home/bob01/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yowsup2-2.4.103-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/yowsup-cli", line 297, in startCmdline

File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/demos/cli/stack.py", line 26, in start
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/stacks/yowstack.py", line 188, in loop
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/asyncore.py", line 216, in loop
poll_fun(timeout, map)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/asyncore.py", line 156, in poll
read(obj)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/asyncore.py", line 87, in read
obj.handle_error()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/asyncore.py", line 83, in read
obj.handle_read_event()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/asyncore.py", line 449, in handle_read_event
self.handle_read()
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/network/layer.py", line 102, in handle_read
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/network/layer.py", line 110, in receive
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/init.py", line 76, in toUpper
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/stanzaregulator/layer.py", line 29, in receive
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/stanzaregulator/layer.py", line 49, in processReceived
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/init.py", line 76, in toUpper
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/auth/layer_crypt.py", line 65, in receive
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/init.py", line 76, in toUpper
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/coder/layer.py", line 35, in receive
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/init.py", line 76, in toUpper
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/logger/layer.py", line 14, in receive
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/init.py", line 76, in toUpper
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/axolotl/layer_control.py", line 44, in receive
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/init.py", line 76, in toUpper
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/init.py", line 189, in receive
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/axolotl/layer_receive.py", line 41, in receive
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/axolotl/layer_receive.py", line 74, in onMessage
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/axolotl/layer_receive.py", line 86, in handleEncMessage
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/axolotl/layer_receive.py", line 129, in handlePreKeyWhisperMessage
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/axolotl/layer_receive.py", line 188, in parseAndHandleMessageProto
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/axolotl/layer_receive.py", line 217, in handleConversationMessage
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/init.py", line 76, in toUpper
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/init.py", line 189, in receive
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/init.py", line 125, in receive
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/protocol_messages/layer.py", line 21, in recvMessageStanza
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/init.py", line 76, in toUpper
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/layers/interface/interface.py", line 80, in receive
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/yowsup/demos/cli/layer.py", line 512, in onMessage
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

[Udirley]

Hello
I had this same problem and resolved added these lines down in the file layer.py

reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

Like this:

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

Maybe this helps you.

[jlguardi]

@bzero change line 34 of yowsup/demos/cli/layer.py from:
'''
MESSAGE_FORMAT = "[{FROM}({TIME})]:[{MESSAGE_ID}]\t {MESSAGE}"
'''
To:
'''
MESSAGE_FORMAT = u"[{FROM}({TIME})]:[{MESSAGE_ID}]\t {MESSAGE}"
'''

[bzero]

utf8 solved, thanks guys