On 08/31/17 10:34, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 08/31/17 09:36, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> wrote:
>>>> On 08/31/17 07:17, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 10:56:26 -0300
>>>>> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@s-opensource.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It should have something to do with python version and/or to some
>>>>>> locale info at the system, as neither I or Jon can reproduce it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't reproduce it here, but I have certainly seen situations where
>>>>> Python 2 wants to run with the ascii codec by default.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that the exception happens in our Sphinx extension, not in Sphinx
>>>>> itself.  We've had other non-ascii text in our docs, so I think Sphinx is
>>>>> doing the right thing.  The problem is with our own code.  If I could
>>>>> reproduce it, it shouldn't be too hard to track down - take out that
>>>>> massive "except anything" block and see where it explodes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Randy, which distribution are you running, and are you using their version
>>>>> of Sphinx?
>>>>
>>>> opensuse LEAP 42.2
>>>> Yes, their sphinx 1.3.1.
>>>
>>> What's your LANG setting? I think that's what it boils down to, and
>>> trying to work around non-UTF-8 LANG in both python 2 and 3 compatible
>>> ways.
>>>
>>> The odd thing is that I can reproduce the issue using a small python
>>> snippet, but not through Sphinx.
>>
>> Your original error message suggests your Sphinx actually uses python
>> 3. Can you check that? The clue is that it's the *decode* that fails.
> 
> Where do you see that clue?
> My /usr/bin/python is linked to python2.7:
> 
>> ll /usr/bin/python
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jun 10 19:59 /usr/bin/python -> python2.7*
> 
>> Does the below patch help? It avoids the implicit ascii decoding due to
>> universal_newlines=True and your LANG setting, and does explicit utf-8
>> decoding instead.
>>
>> Fingers crossed.
> 
> testing now.

Yes, that works for me.  Thanks.

-- 
~Randy
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