utf8 error by importing mercurial repository

When importing repository in the os.mbed.com (Mercurial), I got following problem in my PC (Japanese Windows 7).

PS C:\Users\toyom> mbed --version
1.7.3
PS C:\Users\toyom> mbed import https://os.mbed.com/teams/mbed-os-examples/code/mbed-os-example-blinky/
[mbed] Importing program "mbed-os-example-blinky" from "https://os.mbed.com/teams/mbed-os-examples/code/mbed-os-example-blinky" at latest revision in the current branch
[mbed] ERROR: Unknown Error: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x91 in position 0: invalid start byte
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There is no problem importing GitHub repositiry.

PS C:\Users\toyom> mbed import https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os-example-blinky
[mbed] Importing program "mbed-os-example-blinky" from "https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os-example-blinky" at latest revision in the current branch
[mbed] Adding library "mbed-os" from "https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os" at rev #03196b244ee0
PS C:\Users\toyom>

Also, mbed-cli v1.6.0 did not have this problem.

PS C:\Users\toyom> mbed --version
1.6.0
PS C:\Users\toyom> mbed import https://os.mbed.com/teams/mbed-os-examples/code/mbed-os-example-blinky
[mbed] Importing program "mbed-os-example-blinky" from "https://os.mbed.com/teams/mbed-os-examples/code/mbed-os-example-blinky" at latest revision in the current branch
[mbed] Adding library "mbed-os" from "https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os" at rev #03196b244ee0
PS C:\Users\toyom>

[toyowata]

@screamerbg @cmonr

Interestingly, after I put -vv option for the Mbed-CLI, I could import the repository successfully. I can now import any mercurial repos without any problem. This is strange.

Imported log file is here: mbed_import.txt

[Python version]

PS C:\test> python --version
Python 2.7.15

[pip list]

PS C:\test> pip list --verbose
DEPRECATION: The default format will switch to columns in the future. You can use --format=(legacy|columns) (or define a format=(legacy|columns) in your pip.conf under the [list] section) to disable this warning.
appdirs (1.4.3)
astroid (1.6.3)
backports.functools-lru-cache (1.5)
beautifulsoup4 (4.6.0)
certifi (2018.4.16)
chardet (3.0.4)
colorama (0.3.9)
configparser (3.5.0)
enum34 (1.1.6)
fasteners (0.14.1)
funcsigs (1.0.2)
functools32 (3.2.3.post2)
future (0.16.0)
futures (3.2.0)
fuzzywuzzy (0.16.0)
idna (2.6)
intelhex (2.2.1)
intervaltree (2.1.0)
isort (4.3.4)
Jinja2 (2.10)
jsonschema (2.6.0)
junit-xml (1.8)
lazy-object-proxy (1.3.1)
lockfile (0.12.2)
MarkupSafe (1.0)
mbed-cli (1.7.3)
mbed-greentea (1.4.0)
mbed-host-tests (1.3.1)
mbed-ls (1.4.6)
mccabe (0.6.1)
mock (2.0.0)
monotonic (1.5)
pbr (4.0.4)
pip (9.0.3)
prettytable (0.7.2)
project-generator (0.9.11)
project-generator-definitions (0.2.35)
pyelftools (0.24)
pylint (1.8.4)
pyOCD (0.10.0)
pyserial (3.4)
pyusb (1.0.2)
pywinusb (0.4.2)
PyYAML (3.12)
requests (2.18.4)
setuptools (39.0.1)
singledispatch (3.4.0.3)
six (1.11.0)
sortedcontainers (2.0.4)
urllib3 (1.22)
websocket-client (0.48.0)
wrapt (1.10.11)
xmltodict (0.11.0)
You are using pip version 9.0.3, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

[Mirrored to Jira]

[theotherjimmy]

@screamerbg We could resolve this issue by changing the return value from a decoded string into a raw bytes object. Then we would have to use bytes regex to process it. We could also use a replacing decoder, but this looks like it’s related to cloning, so that may not work as expected. [Mirrored to Jira]