UnicodeEncodeError when launching editor to merge after local commit and update

[Dato Simó]

Hello,

if `bzr whoami` contains non-ASCII characters, an exception will be raised when trying to merge from a bounded branch to its parent. After bzr update, bzr commit will die with:

bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf3' in position 117: ordinal not in range(128)
at /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/msgeditor.py line 99
in edit_commit_message

Note, however, that it works fine if the commit log is specified in the command line via the -m option.

A script to reproduce this bug can be found here: http://chistera.yi.org/~adeodato/tmp/2006-06-04//bzr-bug.sh

I'm using bzr 0.8.2-3 from Debian unstable.

Thanks.

[Dato Simó (dato)]

Hi.

Seems like this was fixed back in December, but only made trunk
recently:

    merged: <email address hidden>
    committer: John Arbash Meinel <email address hidden>
    branch nick: bzr-encoding
    timestamp: Sat 2005-12-24 13:55:19 -0600
    message:
      [patch] from Ivan Vilata i Balaguer: infotext should be encoded from unicode to flat strings

Can this be considered for the next 0.8.x release?

[Dato Simó (dato)]

Fixed in <email address hidden>.