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&gt; --- 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. ## -- 2.13.3