[libvirt] [PATCH glib] Don't set LC_ALL=C during build as that breaks python apps

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Jul 26 08:01:04 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 06:16:49PM +0200, Philipp Hahn wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am 25.07.2017 um 14:07 schrieb Daniel P. Berrange:
> > Setting LC_ALL=C breaks python apps doing I/O on UTF-8 source
> > files. In particular this broke glib-mkenums
> > 
> >   GEN      libvirt-gconfig-enum-types.h
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/glib-mkenums", line 669, in <module>
> >     process_file(fname)
> >   File "/usr/bin/glib-mkenums", line 406, in process_file
> >     line = curfile.readline()
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
> >     return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 849: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> What about using "C.UTF-8" instead, which us the same as "C" but with
> "UTF-8" encoding?
> Maybe ancient RedHat still doesn't know about it ...

It isn't portable.

Regards,
Daniel
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