diff -r e24793fae424 -r 1b734faab67a hgpoll.py
--- a/hgpoll.py	Tue Aug 11 19:12:30 2015 +0300
+++ b/hgpoll.py	Sun Aug 16 10:59:22 2015 +0300
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 		try:
 			repo.clone()
 
-			# We need to un-alias a few things, they may be aliased on the host machine (e.g. mine)
+			# We need to un-alias a few things in case they're aliased
 			comms=['log', 'incoming', 'pull', 'commit', 'push', 'outgoing', 'strip', 'transplant']
 			try:
 				with open (os.path.join (repo.name, '.hg', 'hgrc'), 'a') as fp:
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
 				print ('Warning: unable to alter hgrc of %s: %s' % repo.name, e)
 			print ('Cloning done.')
 		except Exception as e:
-			raise HgProcessError ('Unable to clone %s from %s: %s' % (repo.name, repo.url, e))
+			raise HgProcessError ('Unable to clone %s from %s: %s' % (repo.name, repo.clone_url, e))
 			quit (1)
 
 	if not repo.is_valid():
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@
 
 		username = Config.find_developer_by_email (commit['email'])
 		committer = username if username else commit['author']
-		descriptor = """commit""" if int (random.random() * 100) != 0 else """KERMIT"""
+		descriptor = """commit""" if random.randrange (100) != 0 else """KERMIT"""
 
 		if not isMergeFromSandbox:
 			commitMessage = """\003%d%s\003: new %s\0035 %s%s\003 by\0032 %s\003: %s""" % \
@@ -313,11 +313,6 @@
 					announce_ticket_resolved (match.group (2), commit['node'], db)
 					break
 
-	# Encode messages
-	for messagelist in messages:
-		for i in range (0, len (messagelist)):
-			messagelist[i] = messagelist[i].decode ("utf-8", "ignore").encode("ascii", "ignore")
-
 	fullMessageLength = len (''.join (messages[2]))
 
 	if fullMessageLength > 3000: