UnicodeDecodeError with "bzr fast-import"

[Ian Clatworthy]

Paul Moore wrote:
> 2008/5/18 Teemu Likonen <tlikonen at iki.fi>:

>> The other repo does not convert at all. It stops almost immediately and
>> displays the following error:
>>
>>  bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode
>>  byte 0xc3 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)
>>
>> The other repo converts nicely but in bzr commit messages individual
>> bytes in UTF-8 multibyte sequenced are converted to separate characters.
>> I.e. "ä" which is UTF-8 encoded as c3a4 (hex) will display as "ä" in
>> bzr log output.
>>
>> Any ideas how to solve this?
> 
> Sounds like the same bug I hit a couple of days ago importing from
> svn. I've reported it as bug number 230996 - Ian said he hopes to get
> to it sometime next week.

Guys,

Thanks for raising the bug and for the steps for reproducing them. Try
revision 76 of bzr-fastimport and let me know how it goes.

Ian C.