I would report this to mercurial.
On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 11:53 PM ISHIKAWA,chiaki
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am developing mozilla patches locally under my local PC running linux.
>
> I often include the GCC's error/warning message in the mercurial
> commit message (in the second and subsequent lines, the first line is
> for usage by mozilla's bugzilla procedure.) when my local patch is
> created to address build error or suppress compiler warning.
>
> It worked just fine for months/years.
>
> After an upgrade of local tools under Debian GNU/Linux last month or
> so, I just noticed that such a patch with GCC warning line could not
> be re-applied after it was qpopped. (I use mercurial mqueue
> extension.)
>
> This happened yesterday. This is the error message.
>
> note: commit message saved in .hg/last-message.txt
> transaction abort!
> rollback completed
> abort: decoding near '9: error: ‘sse2::l': 'ascii' codec can't decode
> byte 0xe2 in position 213: ordinal not in range(128)!
>
> I was puzzled. After looking at the patch and the message above, I
> finally figured out that that hg barfed on the proper quote character
> just before "sse2::l" above. Can you spot the slightly tilted OPENING
> quote character?
>
> So I removed the GCC warning line from the commit message and the
> patch could be applied. This is problematic because I have about a few
> dozen patches (actually more) and some patches could not be re-applied
> due to the error above. I had to temporarily removed the offending
> patch(es). Luckily the offending patches are relatively independent
> and taken out for the moment.
> But this could not be done if the patches are interdependent and
> must be applied in a certain order.
>
> Either
> - GCC began producing such a non-ascii character lately (it is v7 on
> my linux PC)
>[but I think I must have seen such characters long time before that],
> - the "ascii" codec or whatever used by python has become very strict
>(But why ascii? Should we not use utf-8 after all?)
>[this could be an issue with setup of hg under my Debian GNU/Linux
> distribution?] , or
> - something in my locale/character setting under Debian GNU/Linux
>broke lately due to the upgrade of local packages.
>
> My point is that I have NOT changed in my personal setting at all
> (unless |./mach bootstrap| I occasionally run to make sure that I have
> the latest rust and other tools did something funny to my .hgrc).
> Only the tools and system-wide setting could have changed mysteriously
> from my point of view.
>
> I found a similar bug report in the following open source project:
> https://github.com/schacon/hg-git/issues/27
>
> I have not tried the HGENCODING=utf-8 fix mentioned in the above URL
> for fear of breaking existing patches against my local copy of the
> mozilla-central and comm-central source tree.
>
> I wonder what would be the ultimate correct fix or
> procedure to avoid/suppress this error.
>
> I am posting this to warn developers who *MAY* see similar issues,
> and to figure out where I should contact and report the issue:
> - mercurial developers?
> - python developers?
> - who else?
>
> I understand that mozilla is a big user of mercurial and so it should have
> some clout to figure out the correct answer is quickly. :-)
>
> TIA
>
> Happy Hacking in the good old sense of the phrase...
>
> from a very perplexed linux user.
>
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