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Mildred (mildred) wrote : exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character

Binary package hint: bazaar

I try to use bazaar to track changes in a wine directory. i have problems with some folder name when I try to add it.

$ bzr status
added:
  drive_c/windows/profiles/mildred/Mes vidéos@
$ bzr ci -m 'try to add Mes vidéos'
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 61: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 612, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 574, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 283, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 1757, in run
    reporter=reporter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/decorators.py", line 51, in write_locked
    return unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/workingtree.py", line 538, in commit
    committed_id = Commit().commit( working_tree=self, revprops=revprops,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commit.py", line 287, in commit
    self._populate_new_inv()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commit.py", line 519, in _populate_new_inv
    path, self.work_tree)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 2110, in record_entry_contents
    ie.snapshot(self._new_revision_id, path, previous_entries, tree, self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/inventory.py", line 415, in snapshot
    self._read_tree_state(path, work_tree)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/inventory.py", line 798, in _read_tree_state
    self.symlink_target = work_tree.get_symlink_target(self.file_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/workingtree.py", line 714, in get_symlink_target
    return os.readlink(self.id2abspath(file_id))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 61: ordinal not in range(128)

bzr 0.10.0 on python 2.4.4.candidate.0 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/X11/bzr', 'ci', '-m', 'try to add Mes vid\xc3\xa9os']

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$ bzr --version
Bazaar (bzr) 0.10.0
Using python interpreter: /usr/bin/python
Using python standard library: /usr/lib/python2.4
Using bzrlib: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib

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