Error on commit of binary file

[John Arbash Meinel]

Rickard Lind wrote:
> $ bzr commit BACK1.BOK
> modified Bokföring/BACK1.BOK
> bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 35: ordinal not in range(128)
> 

This actually isn't because the file was binary. You are running into a 
known bug with older versions of bzr when running in a non-ascii directory.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/84043

> 
> bzr 0.90.0 on python 2.5.1.final.0 (linux2)
> arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'commit', 'BACK1.BOK']
> 
> ** please send this report to bazaar at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> 

There are 3 possible workarounds

1) Upgrade to Bazaar 1.0 or newer
2) Use:
   bzr commit -m "Commit message"

instead of using the editor

3) Use:

   cd ..
   bzr commit project

So that you are running "bzr" outside of the non-ascii directory, and 
just give it the path to the directory you want to commit. I'm not 100% 
positive if (3) works, but 1 and 2 should.

John
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