[python-committers] Anyone having issues with svnmerge.py and 2.6 (possibly OS X problem)?

[R. David Murray]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 at 15:03, Jerry Seutter wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>>   File "/Users/brett/.slash/python/lib/python2.6/encodings/mac_roman.py",
>> line 12, in encode
>>     return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)
>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u0107' in
>> position 191: character maps to <undefined>
>>
>>
>> Anyone else running into this? I tried backing up svnmerge.py to r36767
>> (sometime in March; random choice) and I am still having the problem.
>>
>> -Brett
>>
>
> There's an accented c (ć, unicode 0x0107) in a log message.  It looks like
> svn log is outputting the character and python can't handle it.  Wierd,
> since svn log is supposed to convert its output to the local encoding, just
> like svnmerge is trying to do.
>
> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2002-09/0522.shtml
>
> Someone isn't using the right encoding, or else svn log has a bug.  I might
> just be restating the obvious.

Hmm.  Given the presence of 'mac_roman.py' in the traceback, I wonder if
Issue 6202 has any relevance here?

--David