Stack Trace While Hacking

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Greetings!

> Managed to get this traceback doing some wierd hacking with the api. I
> was unable to put a guard and the beginning of the method to get around
> this.

This problem is related to an ugly hackery currently being done to
support smashing incorrect characters for certain encodings that
eventually get into package metainformation.

The next version of Smart will bring a clean way to handle these
cases, and thus this problem will be solved as well.

-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net