Bug 707026 – app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2 - line 611, in merge self.out.write(doc.doc.serialize('utf-8', 1)) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe4' in position 687: ordinal not in range(128)

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description ernsteiswuerfel 2020-01-28 21:19:42 UTC]

Created attachment 607226 [details]
build.log

[...]
Making all in gnome-doc-make
make[2]: Entering directory '/var/tmp/portage/app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2/work/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-python3_6/doc/gnome-doc-make'
if ! test -d de/; then mkdir "de/"; fi
msgfmt -o de/de.mo /var/tmp/portage/app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2/work/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10/doc/gnome-doc-make/de/de.po
if ! test -d de/; then mkdir de/; fi
if [ -f "C/gnome-doc-make.xml" ]; then d="../"; else d="/var/tmp/portage/app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2/work/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10/doc/gnome-doc-make/"; fi; \
mo="de/de.mo"; \
if [ -f "${mo}" ]; then mo="../${mo}"; else mo="/var/tmp/portage/app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2/work/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10/doc/gnome-doc-make/${mo}"; fi; \
(cd de/ && \
  PYTHONPATH="/var/tmp/portage/app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2/work/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-python3_6/xml2po:/var/tmp/portage/app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2/work/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10/xml2po:" "/var/tmp/portage/app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2/work/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-python3_6/xml2po/xml2po/xml2po" -m docbook -e -t "${mo}" \
    "${d}C/gnome-doc-make.xml" > gnome-doc-make.xml.tmp && \
    cp gnome-doc-make.xml.tmp gnome-doc-make.xml && rm -f gnome-doc-make.xml.tmp)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/tmp/portage/app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2/work/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-python3_6/xml2po/xml2po/xml2po", line 191, in <module>
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/var/tmp/portage/app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2/work/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-python3_6/xml2po/xml2po/xml2po", line 174, in main
    xml2po_main.merge(mofile, filenames[0])
  File "/var/tmp/portage/app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2/work/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10/xml2po/xml2po/__init__.py", line 611, in merge
    self.out.write(doc.doc.serialize('utf-8', 1))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe4' in position 687: ordinal not in range(128)
make[2]: *** [Makefile:684: de/gnome-doc-make.xml] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2/work/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-python3_6/doc/gnome-doc-make'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:275: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2/work/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-python3_6/doc'
make: *** [Makefile:364: all-recursive] Error 1
 * ERROR: app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2::gentoo failed (compile phase):
 *   emake failed

[Comment 1 ernsteiswuerfel 2020-01-28 21:20:14 UTC]

Created attachment 607238 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 2 ernsteiswuerfel 2020-01-29 16:20:54 UTC]

Same on ppc.

[Comment 3 Dirk Sondermann 2020-01-30 22:58:43 UTC]

It depends on the locale of the build environment (and the available locales) whether this error occurs.

For me,

  LC_CTYPE=POSIX          emerge -1 =app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2
  LC_CTYPE=de_DE.iso88591 emerge -1 =app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2

both fail [the first with "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe4' in position 687: ordinal not in range(128)", the second with "UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 3583-3588: ordinal not in range(256)"], whereas

  LC_CTYPE=C.utf8         emerge -1 =app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2

succeeds.

The reason is that

  self.out.write(doc.doc.serialize('utf-8', 1))

in gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10/xml2po/xml2po/__init__.py writes a utf-8 encoded string to out = sys.stdout and doesn't make sure that sys.stdout can handle this.

Replacing 'utf-8' with 'ascii' here avoids the problem.

[Comment 4 Dirk Sondermann 2020-01-30 23:03:38 UTC]

Created attachment 609506 [details, diff]
patch: use ascii encoding instead of utf-8

[Comment 5 ernsteiswuerfel 2020-01-30 23:21:31 UTC]

(In reply to Dirk Sondermann from comment #4)
> Created attachment 609506 [details, diff] [details, diff]
> patch: use ascii encoding instead of utf-8
Thanks! Your patch works for me.

I got following locales in /etc/locale.gen:
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
de_DE ISO-8859-1
de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8

[Comment 6 Todd Walter 2020-02-06 15:02:52 UTC]

I have this as well on AMD64.

UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 3583-3588: ordinal not in range(256)

[Comment 7 Todd Walter 2020-02-06 15:10:37 UTC]

Created attachment 612084 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 8 Martin Dummer 2020-02-22 19:22:02 UTC]

I can confirm this on arch AMD64.

LC_CTYPE=C.utf8         emerge -1 =app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2

works for me too. 

Same workaround - build with an UTF8 locale - as in Bug 702338 and Bug 688330

[Comment 9 Dmitry 2020-03-08 08:18:08 UTC]

LC_CTYPE=C.utf8 emerge =app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2

has failed for me.


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[Comment 10 mark lybarger 2020-04-08 12:27:57 UTC]

LC_CTYPE=C.utf8 emerge =app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2

works for me.  not sure what info i can help provide to get a better fix. obviously, this is temporary. i can't rebuild a clean system with this.

[Comment 11 Matt Turner 2020-04-08 18:10:18 UTC]

Is the choice of a non-utf8 locale intentional?

Can't you just switch to the utf8-equivalent locale with eselect locale set ...?

[Comment 12 Luca Chiampo 2021-02-14 08:40:43 UTC]

Also for me on AMD64

LC_CTYPE="it_IT.UTF-8" emerge app-text/gnome-doc-utils

build successfully.

[Comment 13 Sam James 2021-02-17 19:41:05 UTC]

(In reply to Luca Chiampo from comment #12)
> Also for me on AMD64
> 
> LC_CTYPE="it_IT.UTF-8" emerge app-text/gnome-doc-utils
> 
> build successfully.

(No need to CC random teams, but thanks for letting us know it works)

[Comment 14 Celphor 2021-02-20 15:05:05 UTC]

(In reply to Dirk Sondermann from comment #4)
> Created attachment 609506 [details, diff] [details, diff]
> patch: use ascii encoding instead of utf-8

Thank you. The patch also works for latin-1

[Comment 15 Celphor 2021-02-20 15:05:30 UTC]

(In reply to Dirk Sondermann from comment #4)
> Created attachment 609506 [details, diff] [details, diff]
> patch: use ascii encoding instead of utf-8

Thank you. The patch also works for latin-1

[Comment 16 ganome 2022-02-23 13:45:46 UTC]

This bug still exists in Feb 2022 AMD64.   However I find it easer to use the "eselect locale" module.  For instance:

eselect locale list
Available targets for the LANG variable:
  [1]   C
  [2]   C.utf8
  [3]   en_US
  [4]   en_US.iso88591
  [5]   en_US.utf8 *
  [6]   POSIX
  [ ]   (free form)

sudo eselect locale set 5
sudo emerge -av -1 gnome-doc-utils

problem solved!

[Comment 17 Jakov Smolić 2022-02-23 17:25:31 UTC]

(please don't cc arch teams unnecessarily)

[Comment 18 Hubert 2022-04-15 12:49:22 UTC]

15.04.2022 still only works when use this:
sudo LC_CTYPE="it_IT.UTF-8" emerge app-text/gnome-doc-utils

[Comment 19 Gert Doering 2022-08-11 08:21:46 UTC]

11.08.2022, hit me as well today.

My primary locale is en_US.ISO-8859-1, because I regularily have to work with old software that is not UTF8 capable and it's easier to just keep the system in latin1.

[Comment 20 Mart Raudsepp 2022-08-11 08:37:41 UTC]

I think you should see about workarounding your old software instead of keeping your whole system in a 1990-era locale. You could make launchers for the old software that just launch the actual binary with LC_ALL=en_US.ISO-8859-1 then - e.g. if you have /usr/bin/old-binary, you could make a /usr/local/bin/old-binary with contents

#!/bin/sh
LC_ALL=en_US.ISO-8859-1 /usr/bin/old-binary

and fix your system locale. Though if there's a desktop file, that might launch from /usr/bin/ directly and would need adjustments too.


Anyhow, I wouldn't expect this to get fixed, because it's a legacy package already that only a few other legacy things still use and you really should be using a utf-8 system locale and probably have other subtle issues elsewhere if you don't.