From 148379492d314c0eb98ee8559aea7a2fd0baaeb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:59:52 -0500
Subject: Clearer UnicodeDecodeError message in command_line.dispatch().

See #bea/e30# ("Where should the vcs-name and encoding configuration
options live?")  for details.
---
 libbe/ui/command_line.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'libbe/ui')

diff --git a/libbe/ui/command_line.py b/libbe/ui/command_line.py
index 89d791d..dd10954 100644
--- a/libbe/ui/command_line.py
+++ b/libbe/ui/command_line.py
@@ -267,6 +267,14 @@ def dispatch(ui, command, args):
         ret = ui.run(command, options, args)
     except CallbackExit:
         return 0
+    except UnicodeDecodeError, e:
+        print >> ui.io.stdout, '\n'.join([
+                'ERROR:', str(e),
+                'You should set a locale that supports unicode, e.g.',
+                '  export LANG=en_US.utf8',
+                'See http://docs.python.org/library/locale.html for details',
+                ])
+        return 1
     except libbe.command.UserError, e:
         print >> ui.io.stdout, 'ERROR:\n', e
         return 1
-- 
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