Comment 0 for bug 561711

I was trying to use bazaar to version my home folder. The first command bzr init gave me the following error:

bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd6 in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)

*** 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
    attaching the crash file
        /home/lhoste/.cache/crash/bzr-20100412182433-19157.crash
    and including a description of the problem.

    The crash file is plain text and you can inspect or edit it to remove
    private information.

Ubuntu karmic,
Tried bzr Nightly but experienced the same problem

Bazaar (bzr) 2.1.1