[Samba] Password change via samba-tool: encoding issue

[Sergio Rizzi]

On 20/03/2014 15:13, Sergio Rizzi wrote:
> root at samba4dc:~# samba-tool user setpassword "foo" --newpassword="�"
> ERROR: Failed to set password for user 'foo': 'utf8' codec can't decode
> byte 0xa8 in position 1: invalid start byte
>    File
> "/usr/local/samba-4.1.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/user.py",
> line 586, in run
>      username=username)
>    File
> "/usr/local/samba-4.1.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/samdb.py",
> line 476, in setpassword
>      pw = unicode('"' + password + '"', 'utf-8').encode('utf-16-le')
>
> How to fix it?

Any hint?