UnicodeDecodeError when backup

[geekspeng]

$ mackup backup
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/Cellar/mackup/0.8.18/libexec/bin/mackup", line 9, in
load_entry_point('mackup==0.8.18', 'console_scripts', 'mackup')()
File "/usr/local/Cellar/mackup/0.8.18/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mackup/main.py", line 65, in main
app_db = ApplicationsDatabase()
File "/usr/local/Cellar/mackup/0.8.18/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mackup/appsdb.py", line 34, in init
if config.read(config_file):
File "/Users/geekspeng/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/backports/configparser/init.py", line 705, in read
self._read(fp, filename)
File "/Users/geekspeng/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/backports/configparser/init.py", line 1109, in _read
optname = self.optionxform(optname.rstrip())
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xdc' in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)

[gustavobittencourt]

I am having this same error.

[gudzenkov]

the same error, both with brew or pip installations

Python 2.7.10

[tildebyte]

You've pip-installed configparser at some point (or something has pulled it in as a dependency). pip-uninstall it and try again (worked for me).