unicode & more

[Jeff Garrett]

> >   I'm just starting a linux port of a small OSX app my roommates wrote,
> > and we wanted to use bazaar-ng so we can get familiar and eventually
> > help out.  Anyway, on the very first commit after initializing a new
> > tree it crashed with this unicode handling exception:
> > 
> > --------------------
> > $bzr ci
> > 
> > bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode  
> > byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
> >    at /opt/src/bzr.dev/bzrlib/config.py line 463
> >    in _auto_user_id
> > ----------------------
> > 
> >   Any ideas?
> 
> It would appear that your GECOS information (the name, room number, etc.
> in /etc/passwd) is not in ASCII, and bzr/python can't determine your
> preferred encoding (via locale.getpreferredencoding()).
> 
> You may wish to set the LANG environment variable, e.g. LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> (This will affect everything, not just bzr.)

Oops, I didn't reply to list.  Sorry

-- 
Jeff
JID: jeff at jgarrett.org
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