[Bug 963161] Re: bzr crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in write_revision_to_string(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 81: ordinal not in range(128)

[Yann Hodique]

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Title:
  bzr crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in write_revision_to_string():
  'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 81: ordinal not in
  range(128)

Status in “bzr” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  while trying to merge debian/sid version of the magit package, bzr commit just failed with the attached error.
  a prior "bzr status" worked just fine, only the commit failed

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: bzr 2.4.2-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  BzrDebugFlags: set()
  BzrVersion: 2.4.2
  CommandLine: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'commit']
  CrashDb: bzr
  Date: Fri Mar 23 15:49:29 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/bzr
  FileSystemEncoding: UTF-8
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64+mac (20111012)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  Locale: en_US.UTF-8
  PackageArchitecture: all
  Platform: Linux-3.0.0-17-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-11.10-oneiric
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/bzr commit
  PythonVersion: 2.7.2
  SourcePackage: bzr
  Title: bzr crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in write_revision_to_string(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 81: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserEncoding: UTF-8
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout kvm libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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