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)
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com>
---
Pushed to fix rawhide build
maint.mk | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/maint.mk b/maint.mk
index 405c6d0..ef72b4f 100644
--- a/maint.mk
+++ b/maint.mk
@@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ news-check-lines-spec ?= 1,10
news-check-regexp ?= '^\*.* $(VERSION_REGEXP) \($(today)\)'
# Prevent programs like 'sort' from considering distinct strings to be equal.
-# Doing it here saves us from having to set LC_ALL elsewhere in this file.
-export LC_ALL = C
+# Doing it here saves us from having to set LC_COLLATE elsewhere in this file.
+export LC_COLLATE = C
## --------------- ##
## Sanity checks. ##
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2.13.3