bzr & German umlauts

[John Arbash Meinel]

Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:42:54 -0500
> John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> 
>> Michael Kaiser wrote:
>>> every time I comment my commit and this comment contains German
>>> umlauts, bzr breaks:
>> It sounds like your LANG is set to 'C'. Which causes us to interpret
>> the filesystem encoding as ASCII.
>>
>> You might check the output of 'locale'. On my system I use:
>>
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> You might use 'LANG=de.UTF-8'.
> I think it's a bug though that the error message isn't clearer and
> it shouldn't contain a backtrace.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jelmer

Agreed. I'll happily merge a patch or confirm a bug report on it.

John
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