UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u011f'

[ovizii]

Hi there,

I am taking my first baby steps. I installed borg on 2 different debian machines, both running Jessie.
Made a backup from one to the other.
tried restoring the backup on the target machine.

root@alfred:~/borg extract /root/stratobckp/::07.11.2015
Warning: File system encoding is "ascii", extracting non-ascii filenames will not be supported.
borg: Error: Local Exception.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/vagrant/borg/borg/borg/archiver.py", line 1030, in main
  File "/vagrant/borg/borg/borg/archiver.py", line 986, in run
  File "/vagrant/borg/borg/borg/archiver.py", line 283, in do_extract
  File "/vagrant/borg/borg/borg/archive.py", line 312, in extract_item
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u011f' in position 34: ordinal not in range(128)
borg: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

File system encoding is "ascii", extracting non-ascii filenames will not be supported
*Now what? *

any pointers please?

[ThomasWaldmann]

if sys.getfilesystemencoding() == 'ascii':
            logger.warning('Warning: File system encoding is "ascii", extracting non-ascii filenames will not be supported.')

This is the code. I haven't seen the warning yet on my machines / test setups.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys.getfilesystemencoding

    CODESET (LC_CTYPE)
              Return a string with the name of the character encoding used
              in the selected locale, such as "UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", or
              "ANSI_X3.4-1968" (better known as US-ASCII).  This is the same
              string that you get with "locale charmap".  For a list of
              character encoding names, try "locale -m", cf. locale(1).

[ovizii]

sorry, I'm not a coder. just wanted to report it.
will do further tests, this was jsut a silly test, backing up from A => B then trying to restore on B

[ThomasWaldmann]

Guess the short version of that is "your locale setup is wrong".

[ThomasWaldmann]

Can you try if that helps?:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

[ovizii]

ah, yes, that is fixed then.
I had meanwhile realized my locales where misconfigured and fixed them.
didn't realize these 2 issues were connected.

Thanks!

[ThomasWaldmann]

guess I'll either put that into faq or improve that not-that-much-helping error msg.

[ThomasWaldmann]

5595d56

Hah, you found a missing exception handler! :)

[ovizii]

:-) trust me to do that. I'm excellent at finding the most obscure constellations, its like Murphy is my middle name.