As we cannot and should not rely on how the containers were generated, let's force the container LANG to be en_US.UTF-8 otherwise some containers (Debian 9, Ubuntu 16, and Ubuntu 18) would simply bail when dealing with environment variables inherited from Gitlab CI which contains non-POSIX characteres, such as "Fidêncio". Unfortunately, there's no standard way to do this accross different distros, leaving us with this "happy little accident" of setting up LANG in the way it's done right now. Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio(a)redhat.com&gt; --- guests/lcitool | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/guests/lcitool b/guests/lcitool index 49bb50b..a630971 100755 --- a/guests/lcitool +++ b/guests/lcitool @@ -735,6 +735,10 @@ class Application: RUN pip3 install {pip_pkgs} """).format(**varmap)) + sys.stdout.write(textwrap.dedent(""" + ENV LANG "en_US.UTF-8" + """).format(**varmap)) + if args.cross_arch: sys.stdout.write(textwrap.dedent(""" ENV ABI "{cross_abi}" -- 2.23.0