UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte... errorson OS XX

[Sean Farley]

mp at webfactory.de writes:

> Hi all,
>
> thanks a lot for your help so far!
>
> The hg installation in question is via MacPorts and from what I can tell
> it's based on 
> http://selenic.com/hg/shortlog/f37b5a17e6a0ee17afde2cdde5393dd74715fb58.
> The change from http://www.bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3482 seems to be
> contained in that.

Uh oh, then this might be my fault. Can you see if installing
mercurial-devel gets rid of the error?

$ sudo port deactivate mercurial
$ sudo port install mercurial-devel

If that still has the error, then I'll need some help recreating the
issue. Such as, how can I change my language easily for mercurial? Some
environment variable?

>>I don't see how that error would happen here. The code in question is
>>
>>            doc = e[0].__doc__
>>            if doc and 'DEPRECATED' in doc and not ui.verbose:
>>                continue
>>            doc = gettext(doc)
>
>
> You're referring to mercurial/help.py", line 329, in helplist.
>
> I have no Python experience and don't know how to sensibly debug/step
> through this. But I added a simple print statement one level below this in
> the trace, in gettext() at mercurial/i18n.py" line 42, and found that the
> last message that is attempted to be looked up is already localized and
> indeed contains an Umlaut, so this backs your theory.
>
> The message to be looked up is
>
> 	Aktualisiert das Arbeitsverzeichnis auf den angegebenen Änderungssatz.
> 	Ohne Angabe eines Änderungssatzes wird auf die Spitze des aktuellen
> 	Zweigs aktualisiert und das aktuelle Lesezeichen verschoben. (siehe
> 	:hg:`help  bookmarks`).
>
> which comes from
> 	
> 	"    Update the repository's working directory to the specified\n"
> 	"    changeset. If no changeset is specified, update to the tip of the\n"
> 	"    current named branch and move the current bookmark (see :hg:`help\n"
> 	"    bookmarks`)."
>
>
> Any more ideas what I can try? What do you need to reproduce it? Shall I
> file a bug report for it?
>
> Thanks!
> -mp.
>
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