UnicodeDecodeError Bzr 1.7.1

[Kiri]

Bzr 1.7.1 source
Debian Lenny/Unstable

$ echo $LANG
C

The directory contains no appearant non-ascii characters.

$ bzr init
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 62: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/share/Source/bzr-1.7.1/bzrlib/commands.py", line 857, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/local/share/Source/bzr-1.7.1/bzrlib/commands.py", line 797, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/local/share/Source/bzr-1.7.1/bzrlib/commands.py", line 499, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/local/share/Source/bzr-1.7.1/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 1320, in run
    possible_transports=[to_transport])
  File "/usr/local/share/Source/bzr-1.7.1/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 485, in create_branch_convenience
    bzrdir.create_workingtree()
  File "/usr/local/share/Source/bzr-1.7.1/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 1453, in create_workingtree
    accelerator_tree=accelerator_tree, hardlink=hardlink)
  File "/usr/local/share/Source/bzr-1.7.1/bzrlib/workingtree_4.py", line 1389, in initialize
    hardlink=hardlink, delta_from_tree=True)
  File "/usr/local/share/Source/bzr-1.7.1/bzrlib/transform.py", line 1873, in build_tree
    delta_from_tree)
  File "/usr/local/share/Source/bzr-1.7.1/bzrlib/transform.py", line 1889, in _build_tree
    for dir, files in wt.walkdirs():
  File "/usr/local/share/Source/bzr-1.7.1/bzrlib/workingtree.py", line 2347, in walkdirs
    current_disk = disk_iterator.next()
  File "/usr/local/share/Source/bzr-1.7.1/bzrlib/osutils.py", line 1218, in walkdirs
    names = sorted(_listdir(top))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 62: ordinal not in range(128)

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

0xc3 is à in latin-1 or iso-8859-15
either way, it is a general "the system is claiming ascii filenames and there is one that is clearly not, we should give a clearer error than a traceback."