On 08/31/17 10:55, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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? > > The message, "'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 6368: > ordinal not in range(128)". In my testing I could only get that *decode* > error message using python 3. > >> 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* > > Sure, but how about 'head $(which sphinx-build)'? You are correct: #!/usr/bin/python3 > I could be completely mistaken too. ;) -- ~Randy
