[Bug 693736] Re: purple-remote must encode its output

[Chris Coulson]

I haven't recreated this either. Unsubscribing sponsors for now until we
understand under which condition this problem occurs

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Title:
  purple-remote must encode its output

Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: libpurple-bin 1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.2

  Error when redirecting output from purple-remote to file or other
  program.

  $ purple-remote getstatusmessage > 1.txt
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/purple-remote", line 239, in <module>
      print output
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u266b' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

  Status message was "♫"