"'ascii' codec can't encode characters " from poetry init

[Uninen]

• I am on the latest Poetry version.

• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.

• If an exception occurs when executing a command, I executed it again in debug mode (-vvv option).

• OS version and name: macOS Mojave ( 10.14.6 )

• Poetry version: 1.0.0b8

• Python version: 2.7.16

Issue

When I run poetry init in a directory that has a fresh git repository, the script asks for package name (suggested "misc-python-scripts"), version and description. Left everything as defaults, and when moving forward, the script will pit out an endless loop of 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 24-25: ordinal not in range(128). This is possibly related to #221.

I suspect Poetry might try to use my name from git config or somewhere else (in git config: user.name=Ville Säävuori) and it just fails to handle this as unicode. On my version of macOS, default Python version is 2.7.16.

[Uninen]

After reading the comments from #221 I tried to run poetry init --author="Ville Säävuori" -vvv and poetry init --author="Ville Saavuori" -vvv of which the first one fails:

 ✘ uninen@somiya  ~/Local/Code/LVS/misc-python-scripts   master  poetry init --author="Ville Säävuori" -vvv

This command will guide you through creating your pyproject.toml config.

Package name [misc-python-scripts]:
Version [0.1.0]:
Description []:

[UnicodeDecodeError]
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/uninen/.poetry/bin/poetry", line 14, in <module>
    main()
  File "/Users/uninen/.poetry/lib/poetry/console/__init__.py", line 5, in main
    return Application().run()
  File "/Users/uninen/.poetry/lib/poetry/_vendor/py2.7/clikit/console_application.py", line 139, in run
    trace.render(io, simple=isinstance(e, CliKitException))
  File "/Users/uninen/.poetry/lib/poetry/_vendor/py2.7/clikit/ui/components/exception_trace.py", line 57, in render
    self._render_traceback(io, tb)
  File "/Users/uninen/.poetry/lib/poetry/_vendor/py2.7/clikit/ui/components/exception_trace.py", line 67, in _render_traceback
    io.write_line("".join(traceback.format_list(frames)))
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/traceback.py", line 39, in format_list
    item = '  File "%s", line %d, in %s\n' % (filename,lineno,name)
TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not str

but the latter goes through and initializes the project correctly. Still don't know if this is the same problem than #221 but feel free to close this if it's the same bug.

[finswimmer]

Hello @Uninen ,

this looks to me like #221. So I will close this.

Thanks a lot for reporting!

fin swimmer

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