bzr & German umlauts

[Michael Kaiser]

Hi,

every time I comment my commit and this comment contains German umlauts, 
bzr breaks:

topicdev at copperblue:~/repos/lib$ bzr commit
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode 
byte 0xc3 in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 611, 
in run_bzr_catch_errors
     return run_bzr(argv)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 573, 
in run_bzr
     ret = run(*run_argv)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 282, 
in run_argv_aliases
     return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 
1777, in run
     message = edit_commit_message(template)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/msgeditor.py", line 
114, in edit_commit_message
     for line in codecs.open(msgfilename, 'r', bzrlib.user_encoding):
   File "codecs.py", line 494, in next
     return self.reader.next()
   File "codecs.py", line 431, in next
     line = self.readline()
   File "codecs.py", line 346, in readline
     data = self.read(readsize, firstline=True)
   File "codecs.py", line 293, in read
     newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 31: 
ordinal not in range(128)

bzr 0.11.0 on python 2.4.4.final.0 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'commit']

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