Index: contrib/bazaar/bzreml/__init__.py
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--- contrib/bazaar/bzreml/__init__.py	(revision 5c0e012eab2402671b471594ac11ba6edb63f1e6)
+++ contrib/bazaar/bzreml/__init__.py	(revision 91deaff052ddd8a9a08e5684bb9d995509e5fc26)
@@ -70,5 +70,5 @@
 	
 	sender_user, sender_email = parseaddr(sender)
-	payload = MIMEText(body.encode("utf-8"), "plain", "utf-8")
+	payload = MIMEText(body.decode("utf-8", 'ignore').encode("utf-8", 'ignore'), "plain", "utf-8")
 	
 	msg = MIMEMultipart()