UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode

[ccanepa]

win xp sp3 32 bits spanish

machine has python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 installed ; 2.7 is the default one

Fresh install bzr-2.6b1-1-setup.exe

Trying to clone https://code.launchpad.net/~cdpedistas/cdpedia/trunk
 got a traceback:

D:\tmp>bzr branch lp:cdpedia
You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
write to Launchpad or access private data. See "bzr help launchpad-login".
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
u'\u0301' in position 48: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 930, in exception_to_return_code
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 1141, in run_bzr
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 673, in run_argv_aliases
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 697, in run
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 136, in run_simple
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 166, in _do_with_cleanups
  File "bzrlib\builtins.pyo", line 1489, in run
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 366, in sprout
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 132, in run
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 166, in _do_with_cleanups
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 434, in _sprout
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 906, in create_workingtree
  File "bzrlib\workingtree_4.pyo", line 1565, in initialize
  File "bzrlib\transform.pyo", line 2535, in build_tree
  File "bzrlib\transform.pyo", line 2590, in _build_tree
  File "bzrlib\progress.pyo", line 116, in update
  File "bzrlib\ui\text.pyo", line 374, in _progress_updated
  File "bzrlib\ui\text.pyo", line 554, in show_progress
  File "bzrlib\ui\text.pyo", line 536, in _repaint
  File "bzrlib\ui\text.pyo", line 440, in _show_line
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0301' in position 4
8: ordinal not in range(128)

bzr 2.6b1 on python 2.6.6 (Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3)
arguments: ['bzr', 'branch', 'lp:cdpedia']
plugins: bzrtools[2.5.0], changelog_merge[2.6b1], colo[0.4.0],
    explorer[1.3.0dev], fastimport[0.14.0dev], git[0.6.8dev],
    launchpad[2.6b1], loom[2.3.0dev], netrc_credential_store[2.6b1],
    news_merge[2.6b1], pipeline[1.4.0], qbzr[0.23.0dev], rewrite[0.6.4dev],
    svn[1.2.2dev], upload[1.2.0dev], xmloutput[0.8.8]
encoding: 'cp1252', fsenc: 'mbcs', lang: None

*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error. This probably indicates a
    bug in Bazaar. You can help us fix it by filing a bug report at
        https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug
    including this traceback and a description of the problem.

D:\tmp>set path
Path=c:\python27\Scripts;C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4;C:\Tcl\bin;C:\WINDO
WS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Archivos de programa\ATI Tech
nologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;c:\utils;C:\Archivos de programa\Graphviz2.26.3\bin
;C:\utils\grep\bin;C:\Archivos de programa\Subversion\bin;c:\archivos de program
a\bazaar;C:\Archivos de programa\Bazaar

[ccanepa (ccanepacc)]

Additional data:
The prev command seems to bomb after all the repo ( cdpedia/.bzr) has been writen to disk but before being able to write a single working copy file.

Uninstalled the bzr mentioned in prev post, installed bzr-2.4.2-1-setup(stable).exe, trying to clone gives:

D:\tmp>bzr branch lp:cdpedia
You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
write to Launchpad or access private data. See "bzr help launchpad-login".
bzr: ERROR: Unable to create symlink 'AUTHORS.txt' on this platform

I know I cloned some time ago another software from
https://code.launchpad.net/~facundo/enjuewemela/trunk

so just to see if some repo could be cloned from this machine now, I try
 D:\tmp>bzr branch lp:enjuewemela
You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
write to Launchpad or access private data. See "bzr help launchpad-login".
Branched 102 revision(s).

success.

[Martin Packman (gz)]

Thanks for the report! The fix will be in the next beta release, and the current stable release already has it if you want to use that instead.

[Martin Packman (gz)]

The issue with the symlink in the lp:cdpedia branch is unrelated, see bug 81689 for that.