"bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character" ... when trying to modify a file in an SVN repository with a unicode filename

[Wesley J. Landaker]

See the following for how to reproduce this error:

$ svnadmin create repo
$ svn co file://`pwd`/repo svn
Checked out revision 0.
$ bzr co svn+file://`pwd`/repo bzr
Initialising Subversion metadata cache in /home/wjlanda/.bazaar/svn-cache/d67dcf40-8da0-44ec-8248-1374ec633da5
$ cd svn/
$ touch I²C
$ svn add I²C
A I²C
$ svn commit -m "Adding file."
Adding I²C
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 1.
$ cd ..
$ cd bzr/
$ bzr up
+N I²C
All changes applied successfully.
Updated to revision 2.
$ vi I²C
$ bzr diff
=== modified file 'I²C'
--- I²C 2008-05-13 20:22:41 +0000
+++ I²C 2008-05-13 20:22:56 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+changes

$ bzr commit -m "Changes."
Committing to: svn+file:///home/wjlanda/work/tmp/debug-svn/repo
modified I²C
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb2' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 846, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 802, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 504, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 2381, in run
    author=author)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/decorators.py", line 165, in write_locked
    return unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/workingtree_4.py", line 246, in commit
    result = WorkingTree3.commit(self, message, revprops, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/decorators.py", line 165, in write_locked
    return unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/mutabletree.py", line 190, in commit
    revprops=revprops, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commit.py", line 388, in commit
    revision_id=self.rev_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 947, in fetch
    return inter.fetch(revision_id=revision_id, pb=pb, find_ghosts=find_ghosts)
  File "/home/wjlanda/.bazaar/plugins/svn/commit.py", line 791, in fetch
    self.copy_content(revision_id=revision_id, pb=pb)
  File "/home/wjlanda/.bazaar/plugins/svn/commit.py", line 784, in copy_content
    push_revision_tree(target_branch, target_branch.get_config(), self.source, parent_revid, revision_id, rev)
  File "/home/wjlanda/.bazaar/plugins/svn/commit.py", line 689, in push_revision_tree
    builder.commit(rev.message)
  File "/home/wjlanda/.bazaar/plugins/svn/commit.py", line 491, in commit
    branch_batons[-1])
  File "/home/wjlanda/.bazaar/plugins/svn/commit.py", line 266, in _dir_process
    baton, self.base_revnum, self.pool)
  File "/home/wjlanda/.bazaar/plugins/svn/errors.py", line 105, in convert
    return unbound(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/wjlanda/.bazaar/plugins/svn/transport.py", line 159, in open_file
    parent_baton, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/libsvn/delta.py", line 529, in svn_delta_editor_invoke_open_file
    return apply(_delta.svn_delta_editor_invoke_open_file, args)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb2' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

bzr 1.4 on python 2.5.2 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'commit', '-m', 'Changes.']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'en_US.UTF-8'
plugins:
  bisect /home/wjlanda/.bazaar/plugins/bisect [1.1.0pre0]
  bzrtools /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/bzrtools [1.4.0]
  cvsps /home/wjlanda/.bazaar/plugins/cvsps [unknown]
  gtk /home/wjlanda/.bazaar/plugins/gtk [0.95.0dev1]
  launchpad /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [unknown]
  loom /home/wjlanda/.bazaar/plugins/loom [1.4.0dev0]
  rebase /home/wjlanda/.bazaar/plugins/rebase [0.3.0]
  stats /home/wjlanda/.bazaar/plugins/stats [unknown]
  svn /home/wjlanda/.bazaar/plugins/svn [0.4.11dev0]
*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error.
    Please report a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug
    including this traceback, and a description of what you
    were doing when the error occurred.
$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

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