[Libosinfo] [PATCH] force a UTF-8 locale for python3 to avoid broken ascii codec

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 07:40:54PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 18:19 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 07:08:27PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> > > It seems to happen because both debian & fedora (30+) containers do
> > > not have the required locale.
> > > I'd like to ask your suggestion on how to proceed here:
> > > - Shall we explicitly include glibc-langpack-en as part of the base packages?
> > >   - Its dependencies are: glibc, glibc-commonl
> > >   - Its size is: 6.0 M (on Fedora 30);
> > > - Shall we work around osinfo-db tests in a way that we can make it
> > > work without setting the locale?
> > 
> > In theory C.UTF-8 is our desired locale, but that is a non-standard
> > concept that is only carried as a downstream patch by certain distros.
> > Upstream glibc has not accepted it. It doesn't exist at all on *BSD.
> > Thus we picked en_US.UTF-8 as the only option that gives us UTF-8
> > which is portable across all known operating systems.
> > 
> > If you can't set the locale, the only option is to mandate python
> > 3.7 as the minimum python version, which I think is too strict.
> > 
> > IOW, we shoud just intall the langpack.
> 
> Sounds like a reasonable enough explanation to me.
> 
> > FWIW, I'm proposing the exact same en_US.UTF-8 env var for libvirt
> > python code, so we'll need to deal with the same problem shortly
> > there too.
> 
> When talking to Fabiano about this, I suggested we might want to add
> the locale to the 'base' pseudo-project along with tools like git and
> patch, and reading the above seems to confirm that's indeed the
> direction we should go.

Yeah, definitely get it installed for everything at once.

Regards,
Daniel
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