Am 07.05.21 um 10:35 schrieb Michal Suchánek:
So the bottom line is that UTF-8 in the files will stay, and Sphinx cannot handle UTF-8 when the locale is not UTF-8. In the long run it might be nice to fix Sphinx to properly set the encoding of the files it reads and writes. Or maybe there is some parameter that specifies it?
Let's not mix things up. The Unicode-Error is not related or limited to log nor to sphinx, it is related to the fact that we (you) try to run a utf-8 application in an environment which is not full utf-8 functional.
For the short term I think it is reasonable to run a python test script that prints fancy unicode characters before running Sphinx and bail if the test script fails.
To be assure, I recommend to set UTF-8 locale environment in the Makefile. My experience shows that this is the default with almost all containers (images), there are only a few where this is not the case (may be suse?). -- Markus --
