UnicodeDecodeError with BzrError containing localised error message from OS

[Salvador]

bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 84: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/explorer/lib/explorer.py", line 1405, in callable_with_cleanup
    task_callable()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/explorer/lib/explorer.py", line 1571, in _open_location_task
    auto_virtual_repo_open)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/explorer/lib/explorer.py", line 1603, in _show_unable_to_open_location
    why = gettext(unicode(ex))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/errors.py", line 120, in __unicode__
    u = unicode(u)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 84: ordinal not in range(128)

bzr 2.1.1 on python 2.6.5 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'explorer']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'es_MX.utf8'
plugins:
  bzrtools /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/bzrtools [2.1.0]
  dbus /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/dbus [0.1.0dev]
  explorer /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/explorer [1.0.1]
  gtk /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/gtk [0.98.0.final.1]
  launchpad /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [2.1.1]
  netrc_credential_store /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/netrc_credential_store [2.1.1]
  news_merge /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/news_merge [2.1.1]
  qbzr /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/qbzr [0.18.6]

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

IIUC, you've tried to open directory with non-ascii characters in its name? Does name of the directory is valid unicode string or it has some special characters?

[Lukáš Machyán (phobulos)]

I have very similar problem. When I try to open directory with non-ascii characters in path (directory called "Programování") I get an error like this. However a title is "bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 30: ordinal not in range(128)", so it's Encode instead of Decode Error.

I noticed this after I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10. I didn't get this error message in previous version of Ubuntu. I'm sending an attachment with error log.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Martin Packman (gz)]

See bug 273978 for the bzrlib side of this problem.