Generating error key/var could result in UnicodeEncodeError

[Bouke]

/home/frontend/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gunicorn/workers/sync.py:126:in `handle_request: respiter = self.wsgi(environ, resp.start_response)'
/home/frontend/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py:241:in `__call__: response = self.get_response(request)'
/home/frontend/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py:179:in `get_response: response = self.handle_uncaught_exception(request, resolver, sys.exc_info())'
/home/frontend/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py:215:in `handle_uncaught_exception: 'request': request'
/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py:1158:in `error: self._log(ERROR, msg, args, **kwargs)'
/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py:1250:in `_log: self.handle(record)'
/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py:1260:in `handle: self.callHandlers(record)'
/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py:1300:in `callHandlers: hdlr.handle(record)'
/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py:744:in `handle: self.emit(record)'
/home/frontend/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/airbrake/handlers.py:35:in `emit: self._sendMessage(self._generate_xml(record))'
/home/frontend/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/airbrake/handlers.py:74:in `_generate_xml: SubElement(params, 'var', dict(key=key)).text = str(value)'

Error handling request: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in position 466: ordinal not in range(128)

[sveinn-steinarsson]

Do you think this will be fixed anytime soon?
This looks promising Perkville@cfa2ac0

[Bouke]

That code doesn't handle Python 3. I don't have time to work on this, however feel free to pitch in.