{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lra/mackup/issues/734","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lra/mackup","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lra/mackup/issues/734/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lra/mackup/issues/734/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lra/mackup/issues/734/events","html_url":"https://github.com/lra/mackup/issues/734","id":122122742,"number":734,"title":"UnicodeEncode error when calling mackup backup","user":{"login":"andy9775","id":12144493,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12144493?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/andy9775","html_url":"https://github.com/andy9775","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andy9775/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andy9775/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andy9775/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andy9775/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andy9775/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andy9775/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andy9775/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andy9775/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/andy9775/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-12-14T20:20:10Z","updated_at":"2016-03-04T16:39:27Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I'm trying to call `mackup backup` and I get the following error:\r\n\r\n```\r\nFile \"/usr/local/Cellar/mackup/0.8.11/libexec/bin/mackup\", line 9, in <module>\r\n    load_entry_point('mackup==0.8.11', 'console_scripts', 'mackup')()\r\n  File \"/usr/local/Cellar/mackup/0.8.11/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mackup/main.py\", line 65, in main\r\n    app_db = ApplicationsDatabase()\r\n  File \"/usr/local/Cellar/mackup/0.8.11/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mackup/appsdb.py\", line 34, in __init__\r\n    if config.read(config_file):\r\n  File \"/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/configparser.py\", line 709, in read\r\n    self._read(fp, filename)\r\n  File \"/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/configparser.py\", line 1124, in _read\r\n    optname = self.optionxform(optname.rstrip())\r\nUnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\\xdc' in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)\r\n```\r\n\r\nI installed mackup via brew and I am running python 2.7.11. This error also came up with python 2.6"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lra/mackup/issues/comments/192347843","html_url":"https://github.com/lra/mackup/issues/734#issuecomment-192347843","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/lra/mackup/issues/734","id":192347843,"user":{"login":"howthebodyworks","id":21740,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/21740?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/howthebodyworks","html_url":"https://github.com/howthebodyworks","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/howthebodyworks/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/howthebodyworks/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/howthebodyworks/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/howthebodyworks/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/howthebodyworks/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/howthebodyworks/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/howthebodyworks/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/howthebodyworks/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/howthebodyworks/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-04T16:39:27Z","updated_at":"2016-03-04T16:39:27Z","body":"Yeah, I get this on python 3.5 too, installed mackup via pip. For me however, it work via homebrew. Hmm."}}