The python3 ascii codec violates POSIX C locale requirements by not being 8-bit clean in its text handling. It raises an error for any byte with top bit set > return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] E UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 419: ordinal not in range(128) To avoid this python bug we must force use of a UTF-8 locale. Ideally we would use the C.UTF-8 locale, however, that is not portable across OS, only existing on certain Linux distros. Instead we use the en_us.UTF-8 locale, but only for the character set data. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Pushed as a CI build fix for FreeBSD distros Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index c63cb6e..9d7f109 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -123,4 +123,4 @@ update-po: done check: $(DATA_FILES) $(SCHEMA_FILES) - $(PYTHON) -m pytest $(PYTEST_LOG_LEVEL) + LC_ALL= LANG=C LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 $(PYTHON) -m pytest $(PYTEST_LOG_LEVEL) -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo