bzr fails init/branch with UnicodeDecodeError

[Geoffrey Sneddon]

This happens running anything. bzr init/branch of any report, including in an empty directory.

Mon 2013-01-07 17:28:56 +0000
0.061 bazaar version: 2.5.1
0.061 bzr arguments: [u'init']
0.069 looking for plugins in /home/gsnedders/.bazaar/plugins
0.069 looking for plugins in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins
0.077 encoding stdout as sys.stdout encoding 'UTF-8'
0.098 creating repository in file:///home/gsnedders/Documents/my-projects/OSS/html5lib/foo/.bzr/.
0.100 creating branch <bzrlib.branch.BzrBranchFormat7 object at 0x2755d90> in file:///home/gsnedders/Documents/my-projects/OSS/html5lib/foo/
0.106 trying to create missing lock '/home/gsnedders/Documents/my-projects/OSS/html5lib/foo/.bzr/checkout/dirstate'
0.173 opening working tree '/home/gsnedders/Documents/my-projects/OSS/html5lib/foo'
0.241 Transferred: 0kB (0.0kB/s r:0kB w:0kB)
0.244 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 920, in exception_to_return_code
    return the_callable(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 1131, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 673, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 695, in run
    return self._operation.run_simple(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/cleanup.py", line 136, in run_simple
    self.cleanups, self.func, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/cleanup.py", line 166, in _do_with_cleanups
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 2111, in run
    force_new_tree=force_new_tree)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/controldir.py", line 646, in create_branch_convenience
    controldir.create_workingtree()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 910, in create_workingtree
    accelerator_tree=accelerator_tree, hardlink=hardlink)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/workingtree_4.py", line 1549, in initialize
    delta_from_tree=delta_from_tree)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/transform.py", line 2536, in build_tree
    delta_from_tree)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/transform.py", line 2641, in _build_tree
    raw_conflicts = resolve_conflicts(tt, pass_func=resolver)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/transform.py", line 3028, in resolve_conflicts
    pb.update(gettext('Resolution pass'), n+1, 10)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/lazy_import.py", line 117, in __call__
    return obj(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/i18n.py", line 40, in gettext
    install()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/i18n.py", line 92, in install
    _translations = install_translations(lang)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib/i18n.py", line 114, in install_translations
    fallback=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gettext.py", line 465, in translation
    mofiles = find(domain, localedir, languages, all=1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gettext.py", line 448, in find
    mofile = os.path.join(localedir, lang, 'LC_MESSAGES', '%s.mo' % domain)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 71, in join
    path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

Bazaar (bzr) 2.5.1
  Python interpreter: /usr/bin/python2 2.7.3
  Python standard library: /usr/lib/python2.7
  Platform: Linux-3.6.11-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5
  bzrlib: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bzrlib
  Bazaar configuration: /home/gsnedders/.bazaar
  Bazaar log file: /home/gsnedders/.bzr.log

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Can you provide the output of "locale" ?

[Geoffrey Sneddon (geoffers)]

Oh, this will be from when I somehow ended up with `export LANGUAGE="$(echo -n -e '\xffen_GB')"` in my environment. No, I don't how.