[S3tools-general] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 45: ordinal not in range(128)

[Jonathan M. <jon...@in...>]

Hi There,

Having some trouble using s3cmd to sync data down from S3.

When syncing the following file down:

Tonight-Alive----Five-Years_cd-cover.jpg

The following error gets thrown:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     An unexpected error has occurred.
   Please report the following lines to:
    s3t...@li...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Problem: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in 
position 45: ordinal not in range(128)
S3cmd:   1.0.0-rc1

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/s3cmd", line 1899, in <module>
     main()
   File "/usr/bin/s3cmd", line 1843, in main
     cmd_func(args)
   File "/usr/bin/s3cmd", line 1120, in cmd_sync
     return cmd_sync_remote2local(args)
   File "/usr/bin/s3cmd", line 873, in cmd_sync_remote2local
     output(u"download: %s -> %s" % (remote_list[key]['object_uri_str'], 
remote_list[key]['local_filename']))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 45: 
ordinal not in range(128)

I have checked and there are certainly unusual characters in the name of 
the file.
Specifically the shorter dashes "---".
I have tried specifying the encoding using "--encoding=UTF-8" however 
this has not helped.

Don't mind having these characters being stripped when downloaded 
(broken backup, but still have the files).
However it's not an option to rename the files on s3 (database entries 
in application linking to those filenames).

Any idea's how to sync the files down from s3, or to skip them instead 
of throwing an exception ?