On 08/31/17 09:36, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 08/31/17 07:17, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >>>> On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 10:56:26 -0300 >>>> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html