bzr unable to handle path with accents

[Anne-Laure Jachiet]

Under Windows Vista, if I make a Bazaar checkout in a folder whose path contains an accent on some letter (e.g. "é"), the checkout works fine but any subsequent action (log, commit, update... whatever) fails with the following error message:
"UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' coded can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 40: ordinal not in range(128)"

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

That sounds like a known bug, but if you could attach the full backtrace and optionally the relevant part of your log file ('bzr version' will tell you where it is), it would help a lot with the diagnosis.

[Anne-Laure Jachiet (al-jachiet)]

Here are the backtrace and part of the log file.

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

Thanks, indeed the problem is known.

The workaround so far is to avoid accented letters in the directory names (or really any character than requires utf-8 encoding), but I guess you already know that given the bug title you chose.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

The backtrace indicates qbzr is failing.

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

It's a known bug in TBZR