UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)

[Martijn van Brummelen]

while running bzr add on debian sid :

bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 946, in exception_to_return_code
    return the_callable(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 1150, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 699, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 721, in run
    return self._operation.run_simple(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/cleanup.py", line 135, in run_simple
    self.cleanups, self.func, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/cleanup.py", line 165, in _do_with_cleanups
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 716, in run
    no_recurse, action=action, save=not dry_run)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/mutabletree.py", line 51, in tree_write_locked
    return unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/mutabletree.py", line 452, in smart_add
    adder.add(file_list, recurse=recurse)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/mutabletree.py", line 750, in add
    for subf in sorted(os.listdir(abspath)):
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)

bzr 2.4b5 on python 2.6.7 (Linux-2.6.26-1-xen-686-i686-with-debian-wheezy-sid)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'add']
plugins: bash_completion[2.4b5], bzrtools[2.4.0], changelog_merge[2.4b5],
    etckeeper[unknown], launchpad[2.4b5], netrc_credential_store[2.4b5],
    news_merge[2.4b5], weave_fmt[2.4b5]
encoding: 'ANSI_X3.4-1968', fsenc: 'ANSI_X3.4-1968', lang: None

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[Martijn van Brummelen (martijn-brumit)]

bzr --version
Bazaar (bzr) 2.4b5
  Python interpreter: /usr/bin/python 2.6.7
  Python standard library: /usr/lib/python2.6
  Platform: Linux-2.6.26-1-xen-686-i686-with-debian-wheezy-sid
  bzrlib: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib
  Bazaar configuration: /root/.bazaar
  Bazaar log file: /root/.bzr.log

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[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

You're system is claiming that all files are encoded in ASCII, but you probably have a file which has non-ascii characters.

You can probably set LANG=en.UTF-8

I thought we had a bug saying "if the system claims to be ASCII, just use UTF-8", but I can't find it right now. So in the short term, consider this bug to be that.

[Martijn van Brummelen (martijn-brumit)]

Hi John,

Export LANG=en.UTF-8 solves this problem.
Thanks.