Yelp/mrjob — Issue #320: set_status should accept unicode or document ascii requirement
Author: jblomo
Created: 2011-12-22 17:44:56+00:00
State: open

Trying to set the status with a string containing a non-ascii character throws an exception:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe0' in position 26: ordinal not in range(128)

We should either accept and print UTF-8 (if hadoop supports it) or document that only ascii can be passed to the function.