duplicity 0.6.17: UnicodeDecodeError with WebDAVs backend

[porter@…]

Hello,

I was trying to get collection-status or list-current-files from webdavs (https) backups with MacPorts-installed duplicity 0.6.17 (on Mac OS 10.6.8), and I got a UnicodeDecodeError:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1377, in <module>
   with_tempdir(main)
 File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1370, in with_tempdir
   fn()
 File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1250, in main
   globals.archive_dir).set_values()
 File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
line 696, in set_values
   self.get_backup_chains(partials + backend_filename_list)
 File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
line 819, in get_backup_chains
   map(add_to_sets, filename_list)
 File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
line 813, in add_to_sets
   log.Debug(_("File %s is not part of a known set; creating new
set") % (filename,))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position
23: ordinal not in range(128)

That happened with 3 different webdavs servers.

Then I installed duplicity 0.6.17 from the tarball into my HOME directory, and I can't reproduce the problem anymore.

[jmr@…]

Is this still a problem with 0.6.18?

[porter@…]

My duplicity tree is now installed manually: all I can tell is that I haven't seen this error either with manually installed 0.6.17 or manually installed 0.6.18.

Dependencies still come from MacPorts.

[jmr@…]

The same error is mentioned in ​https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/duplicity/+bug/989496 (comment 5), so it's not just MacPorts.