On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:21:29 +0300
Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@intel.com> wrote:
> On python3, Popen() universal_newlines=True converts the subprocess
> stdout to unicode text using a codec based on user preferences. Given
> LANG indicating ascii and utf-8 stdout from the subprocess, you'd get:
>
> WARNING: kernel-doc '../scripts/kernel-doc -rst -enable-lineno
> ../drivers/media/dvb-core/demux.h' processing failed with: 'ascii' codec can't
> decode byte 0xe2 in position 6368: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> Fix this by dropping universal_newlines=True and replacing the implicit
> LANG specific decode with an explicit utf-8 decode. This also gets rid
> of the annoying conditional code for python 2 vs. 3.
>
> Fixes: ba3501859354 ("Documentation/sphinx: fix kernel-doc extension on
> python3")
> Reference:
> 54c23e8e-89c0-5cea-0dcc-e938952c5642@infradead.org">http://mid.mail-archive.com/54c23e8e-89c0-5cea-0dcc-e938952c5642@infradead.org
> Reported-and-tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@s-opensource.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@intel.com>
Cool...I go out to run some errands and the problem's fixed! :)
Patch applied, thanks to everybody for figuring this out.
jon
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