[ARROW-6706] [Developer Tools] Cannot merge PRs from authors with "Á" (U+00C1) in their name

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Component/s: Developer Tools
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/23051
• Assignee: Andy Grove
• Reporter: Andy Grove
• Created: 26/Sep/19 11:53
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:48
• Resolved: 26/Sep/19 12:11

Description

I tried merging a PR from Ádám Lippai (https://github.com/alippai) and the merge script failed with:

 

./dev/merge_arrow_pr.py 
ARROW_HOME = /home/andy/git/andygrove/arrow/dev
PROJECT_NAME = arrow
Which pull request would you like to merge? (e.g. 34): 5499
Env APACHE_JIRA_USERNAME not set, please enter your JIRA username:andygrove
Env APACHE_JIRA_PASSWORD not set, please enter your JIRA password:*********
=== Pull Request #5499 ===
title	ARROW-6705: [Rust] [DataFusion] README has invalid github URL
source	alippai/patch-1
target	master
url	https://api.github.com/repos/apache/arrow/pulls/5499
=== JIRA ARROW-6705 ===
Summary		[Rust] [DataFusion] README has invalid github URL
Assignee	NOT ASSIGNED!!!
Components	Rust
Status		Open
URL		https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6705Proceed with merging pull request #5499? (y/n): y
Switched to branch 'PR_TOOL_MERGE_PR_5499_MASTER'
Automatic merge went well; stopped before committing as requested
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./dev/merge_arrow_pr.py", line 571, in <module>
    cli()
  File "./dev/merge_arrow_pr.py", line 556, in cli
    pr.merge()
  File "./dev/merge_arrow_pr.py", line 354, in merge
    print("Author {}: {}".format(i + 1, author))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc1' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)