traceback running merge involving non-ascii filenames with ascii locale set

[kir666]

traceback

bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 54-62: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 857, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 797, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 499, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 1039, in run
    possible_transports=possible_transports)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/workingtree.py", line 2133, in update
    return self._update_tree(old_tip, change_reporter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/mutabletree.py", line 52, in tree_write_locked
    return unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/workingtree.py", line 2173, in _update_tree
    change_reporter=change_reporter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 1209, in merge_inner
    return merger.do_merge()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 445, in do_merge
    self._do_merge_to(merge)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 417, in _do_merge_to
    merge.do_merge()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 529, in do_merge
    self._compute_transform()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 567, in _compute_transform
    file_status = self.merge_contents(file_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 840, in merge_contents
    self.other_tree, trans_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/transform.py", line 2103, in create_by_entry
    tt.create_file(lines, trans_id, mode_id=mode_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/transform.py", line 338, in create_file
    f = open(name, 'wb')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 54-62: ordinal not in range(128)

bzr 1.7 on python 2.5.2 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'update']
encoding: 'ANSI_X3.4-1968', fsenc: 'ANSI_X3.4-1968', lang: None
plugins:
  bzrtools /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/bzrtools [1.7.0]
*** 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.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

Your system is telling us that paths are encoded in "ASCII", but you are trying to checkout a file which is not ASCII.

Probably it is just a configuration issue. I don't know your preferred language, but doing something like:

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
bzr update

will cause it to work. As that tells us that things are actually encoded in UTF-8, and thus we can handle non-ascii characters.

[kir666 (kir-exe)]

Thanks. It works now with LANG=*UTF-8. But anyway traceback in this situation is not the best choice.