Bazaar-ng and Unicode dir names problem

[Panagiotis Papadakos]

Hi John.

Thanks for your suggestion but unfortunately it does not work.

echo $LANG reports:
en_US.UTF-8

Regards
	Papadakos Panagiotis

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> Panagiotis Papadakos wrote:
> > Hello everybody and thank you for your nice work in bzr!
> >
>
> Thanks.
>
> > I just started using bzr-0.1.1 for my university projects and I have
> > come across a problem in my UTF-8 Linux box which seems to be related
> > to the fact that the path of my working branch contains Greek characters.
> > This is the output of 'bzr add -v thread.h' command:
>
> Try this:
> in bzrlib/add.py on line 55 there should be "file_list = ['.']" try
> changing that to "file_list = [u'.']".
>
> That should make python try and read things correctly.
> If that doesn't work, what is your LANG value?
>
> Try setting it to something like:
>
> export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> bzr add -v thread.h
>
> (I don't expect your real language is US english, but I don't know the
> codes for greek. The important part is the .UTF-8)
>
>
> In general, it looks like python things your encoding is ASCII, and when
> it tries to decode your greek characters, it can't handle it. But I'm
> wondering if that is because we forgot to ask for the path as a unicode
> string, or if it is because of your system settings.
>
> John
> =:->
>
>
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/__init__.py", line 737, in emit
> >     self.stream.write(fs % msg.encode("UTF-8"))
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xce in position 111:
> > ordinal not in range(128)
> > bzr: ERROR: command: '/usr/bin/bzr' 'add' '-v' 'thread.h'
> > pwd: /root/University/Panagiotis/(Greek characters)/
> > (Greek characters) 2005/hy527/askiseis/ask1_versioned
> > 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xce in position 28: ordinal not in
> > range(128)
> >   at /usr/lib/python2.4/posixpath.py line 65, in join()
> >   see ~/.bzr.log for debug information
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Regards
> > 	Papadakos Panagiotis
> >
> >
>
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