Hi, There's no locale. The 'locales' packages, in particular, is not installed.
I also think that the GECOS' encoding is generally independant from the user's current locale. - Sylvain On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 08:02:39AM +0200, Jan Djärv wrote: > Hello. > > I recently had a problem where commit to bzr failed. > Sylvain Beucler correctly assumed non-ascii characters in the > GECOS-field where the problem and that a bzr was at fault. I filed > a bug report on bzr that stated that the bzr server fails when there > are non-ascii characters in the GECOS field. They now request more > information, can you help? > > The bug report is here: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/659763 > > I qoute the last entry where they request information: > > "I would speculate that Python may run on savannah with the locale set > such that it expects gecos to be in ascii. You would think that LANG= > whatever gets passed across ssh, but perhaps not. If you can get the > server-side traceback, which should be in .bzr.log there, that could > help." > > Thanks, > > Jan D. >