Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: commit issues with bzr / bzr whoami

[Martin Pool]

On 13 October 2010 04:36, Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's a GECOS field.  The field is encoded in UTF-8 and made available
> to the system through libnss-mysql-bg
> (http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libnss-mysql-bg).
>
> Reinhard: I don't think bzr should fail in such case, or to the least
> it should be more explicit (the username _was_ here, after all).

I don't think it should fail there either.  In general Python really
expects external strings to be in the default encoding, which here
seems to be ascii.  However, I don't think we really have any good
reason to care about the gecos name on the server.  We'll see about
fixing it.

-- 
Martin