Issue #4832 has been updated by James Turnbull.

Status changed from Ready for Testing to Closed

Pushed in commit:"3c56705a95c945778674f9792a07b66b879cb48e" in branch 2.6.x
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Feature #4832: Character encodings support for PSON
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4832

Author: Felix Frank
Status: Closed
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Markus Roberts
Category: parser
Target version: 2.6.3
Affected Puppet version: 2.6.1
Keywords: encoding, pson, serialization, utf8
Branch: MarkusQ:tickets/2.6.x/4832


PSON is currently hardcoded to expect UTF8 in manifests and output UTF8 on 
client machines.

The former is a genuine problem when manifests include non-UTF8 non-ASCII 
characters (e.g. in content arguments for files), the latter is annoying if 
client OSes or applications have no UTF8 support.

I'm working on a patch that will allow the user to control (via puppet.conf)
a) what non-UTF8 encoding the puppet master will accept as a fallback encoding 
(PSON currently throws errors when trying to serialize non-UTF8 characters)
b) to which encoding PSON will deserialize in the client

I'm gunning for a "fallback" solution in the master, because a minimal change 
will leave the UTF8<->UTF16 as is and add an additional iconv layer. However, 
in most cases UTF8 is fine, because it handles pure ASCII without problems. So 
the chosen native encoding is really a fallback for strings that raise UTF8 
errors (because they are in fact not UTF8).

Does this even make sense, or am I on the road to crazy town?


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