lighttpd mailman python 2.5 SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character in file /var/www/mailman/listinfo

[Ken Larkman]

I am having a problem with mailman 2.1.6 and python 2.5. Since configuring mailman and lighttpd, I am getting the following errors in the error.log:

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x90' in file /var/www/mailman/listinfo on line 2, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
  File "/var/www/mailman/admindb", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x90' in file /var/www/mailman/admindb on line 2, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
  File "/var/www/mailman/admin", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x90' in file /var/www/mailman/admin on line 2, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
  File "/var/www/mailman/subscribe", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x90' in file /var/www/mailman/subscribe on line 2, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
  File "/var/www/mailman/listinfo", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x90' in file /var/www/mailman/listinfo on line 2, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
  File "/var/www/mailman/listinfo", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x90' in file /var/www/mailman/listinfo on line 2, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
  File "/var/www/mailman/admin", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x90' in file /var/www/mailman/admin on line 2, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
  File "/var/www/mailman/listinfo", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x90' in file /var/www/mailman/listinfo on line 2, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
  File "/var/www/mailman/listinfo", line 1

This is apparently a known issue with python but neither google or ubuntu forums has so far yielded a solution.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

- ken



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