bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character ...

[Andrew Bennetts]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
[...]
> 
> Thanks David. This looks like a bug in bzr-svn. My best guess is that it is
> trying to combine a Unicode string with a regular python string. But that
> python string contains a character >127.
> 
> I would guess that the SVN repository has non-ascii filenames, and that bzr-svn
> just needs to properly decode them into Unicode. Or possibly encode whatever is
> Unicode right now into UTF-8 before combining them.

I believe the current development version of bzr-svn is better at coping with
non-ascii filenames.  So David could try checking out the bleeding development
branch, or otherwise wait for the next release (although I'm not sure how far
away that is...).

-Andrew.