I recently acquired a MacBook. I compiled Mercurial 1.6.3, and set it all with NetBeans.
The thing is, whenever I try to commit, and since I’m writing the revision message and my name with accented characters (in Spanish), I’m getting an error like:
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: decoding near 'Naim? Batuta ': 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x8e in position 4: unexpected code byte!
I used locale on the console, and I got this:
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=
I tried setting LC_CTYPE=”C.UTF-8″, and now LC_CTYPE became =”C” as well, yet Mercurial keeps showing me the same message.
At first I thought it was NetBeans switching character encodings, but then I tried a simple hg commit, and it returned the same error.
I’ve read everywhere, and while such articles mention character encodings of Mercurial, Mac OS X, and Python, some patches to fix it (a while ago, so they should be already in Mercurial), I haven’t found a real solution.
Has it happened to you before? How did you solve it? Please, help me. It works just fine on my desktop (Windows) machine, but sometimes I need to make modifications while I’m away, and this is driving me crazy.
Thanks in advance!
No idea what really happened. I deleted any file I had of Mercurial from my compilation, and just used the installation package.
Yes, it now works wonders. Thank you all!