Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2 03/24] build: force a UTF-8 locale for python

Python3 versions less than 3.7 have very unhelpful handling of the C locale where they assume data is 7-bit only. This violates POSIX which requires the C locale to be 8-bit clean. Python3 >= 3.7 now assumes that the C locale is always UTF-8.

Set env variables to force LC_CTYPE to en_US.UTF-8 so that we get UTF-8 handling on all python versions. Note we do not use C.UTF-8 since not all C libraries support that. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Makefile.am | 2 +- configure.ac | 8 ++++++++ docs/Makefile.am | 3 ++- src/esx/Makefile.inc.am | 2 +- src/hyperv/Makefile.inc.am | 2 +- src/util/Makefile.inc.am | 8 ++++---- 6 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

+++ b/src/esx/Makefile.inc.am @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ $(ESX_DRIVER_GENERATED): $(ESX_GENERATED_STAMP) $(ESX_GENERATED_STAMP): $(srcdir)/esx/esx_vi_generator.input \ $(srcdir)/esx/esx_vi_generator.py - $(AM_V_GEN)srcdir=$(srcdir) $(PYTHON) $(srcdir)/esx/esx_vi_generator.py \ + $(AM_V_GEN)srcdir=$(srcdir) $(RUNUTF8) $(PYTHON) $(srcdir)/esx/esx_vi_generator.py \ && touch $@