[Bug 1100283] Re: adt-run failed with "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 46" when stderr contains non-ascii charaters

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Title:
  adt-run failed with "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode
  byte 0xe2 in position 46" when stderr contains non-ascii charaters

Status in “autopkgtest” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  When stderr contains non-ascii characters adt-run fails with:

  adt-run: trace: & dsc0t-build:  - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - -
  adt-run: unexpected, exceptional, error:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/adt-run", line 1860, in main
      process_actions()
    File "/usr/bin/adt-run", line 1836, in process_actions
      run_tests(stanzas, act.tests_tree)
    File "/usr/bin/adt-run", line 1095, in run_tests
      t.run(tree)
    File "/usr/bin/adt-run", line 1194, in run
      t.reportfail('status: %d, stderr: %s' % (rc, l))
    File "/usr/bin/adt-run", line 1119, in reportfail
      report(t.what, 'FAIL ' + m)
    File "/usr/bin/adt-run", line 167, in report
      preport('%-20s %s' % (tname, result))
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 46: ordinal not in range(128)

  
  In this particular test, the content of stderr was:
  """
  gitest.c: In function ‘main’:
  gitest.c:10:5: warning: ‘g_type_init’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/glib-2.0/gobject/gtype.h:669) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
  """
  (note the unicode quotes)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: autopkgtest 2.2.3ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-7.15-generic 3.7.0
  Uname: Linux 3.7.0-7-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Jan 16 14:44:48 2013
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: autopkgtest
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-01-31 (350 days ago)

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