On 13 October 2010 04:36, Sylvain Beucler <[email protected]> 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
