[tor-bugs] #8873 [arm]: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

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#8873: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 0:
ordinal not in range(128)
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 Reporter:  gsathya  |          Owner:  atagar
     Type:  defect   |         Status:  new   
 Priority:  major    |      Milestone:        
Component:  arm      |        Version:        
 Keywords:           |         Parent:        
   Points:           |   Actualpoints:        
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 Starting arm (64816a180a29797dad6d11f8649db08632670d6a) results in a
 stacktrace -
 {{{
 arm :: (master) »  ./arm
 ~/arm  1 ↵
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "./src/starter.py", line 458, in <module>
     _loadConfigurationDescriptions(pathPrefix)
   File "./src/starter.py", line 162, in _loadConfigurationDescriptions
     util.torConfig.loadOptionDescriptions()
   File "/home/gsathya/arm/src/util/torConfig.py", line 195, in
 loadOptionDescriptions
     line = uiTools.getPrintable(line)
   File "/home/gsathya/arm/src/util/uiTools.py", line 127, in getPrintable
     line = line.replace('\xc2', "'")
 UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 0:
 ordinal not in range(128)
 }}}

 Setting priority to major since I'm not even able to start arm.

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