Jira (PUP-8249) Certain environments return "invalid byte sequence in " when parsing module PO files

[Eric Delaney (JIRA)]

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Eric Delaney commented on PUP-8249   Re: Certain environments return "invalid byte sequence in <locale>" when parsing module PO files The underlying issue is around how the user's shell environment is set when calling puppet (ruby). The critical pieces are the following: fastgettext looks at LANGUAGE first Ruby looks at LANG to determine the Encoding.default_external So when Ruby gets started you need the following to be successful when setting the language: to have LANGUAGE set (or completely unset) to have LANG set to a language with UTF-8 encoding If LANG doesn't support a UTF-8 encoding then loading the translations files will fail. For example here it succeeds because its UTF-8: gb3gzj87bccsk9d:bin root# LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=ja_JP.UTF-8 puppet facts >/dev/null Error: Facter: error while resolving custom fact "i18ndemo_fact": eputnam-i18ndemo fact: これはeputnam-i18ndemoからのカスタムファクトからのレイズです While all of these fail because we can't open the translation po files successfully: gb3gzj87bccsk9d:bin root# LANG=ja_JP.eucJP LANGUAGE=ja_JP.eucJP puppet facts >/dev/null Error: Facter: error while resolving custom fact "i18ndemo_fact": invalid byte sequence in EUC-JP gb3gzj87bccsk9d:bin root# LANG=ja_JP.SJIS LANGUAGE=ja_JP.SJIS puppet facts >/dev/null Error: Facter: error while resolving custom fact "i18ndemo_fact": invalid byte sequence in Windows-31J gb3gzj87bccsk9d:bin root# LANG=ja_JP LANGUAGE=ja_JP.UTF-8 puppet facts >/dev/null Error: 'facts'で'find'を呼び出せませんでした : "\xE3" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 Error: 'facts'で'find'を呼び出せませんでした : "\xE3" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 Error: 'puppet help facts find'を使用してみてください。 Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.0.2#70111-sha1:88534db) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.