Bug 793095 – app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2 UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 3583-3588: ordinal not in range(256)

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description contact.tdw78 2021-05-30 19:57:37 UTC]

This ebuild fails to compile, making it impossible to emerge xfce-base/xfce4-meta

Reproducible: Always




Output of emerge --pqv:
[ebuild  N    ] app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r2  PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8 -python3_7 -python3_9"

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[Comment 1 contact.tdw78 2021-05-30 19:57:59 UTC]

Created attachment 712638 [details]
build log

[Comment 2 contact.tdw78 2021-05-30 19:58:16 UTC]

Created attachment 712641 [details]
emerge --info output

[Comment 3 Matt Turner 2021-06-01 02:10:22 UTC]

What do you have LANG configured as? E.g., echo $LANG

What do you have listed in /etc/locale.gen ?

[Comment 4 contact.tdw78 2021-06-01 08:45:57 UTC]

(In reply to Matt Turner from comment #3)
> What do you have LANG configured as? E.g., echo $LANG
> 
> What do you have listed in /etc/locale.gen ?

funnybox ~ # echo $LANG
en_US

funnybox ~ # cat /etc/locale.gen
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1
C.UTF8 UTF-8

[Comment 5 contact.tdw78 2021-06-01 08:50:42 UTC]

(In reply to contact.tdw78 from comment #4)
> (In reply to Matt Turner from comment #3)
> > What do you have LANG configured as? E.g., echo $LANG
> > 
> > What do you have listed in /etc/locale.gen ?
> 
> funnybox ~ # echo $LANG
> en_US
> 
> funnybox ~ # cat /etc/locale.gen
> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> en_US ISO-8859-1
> C.UTF8 UTF-8

Well I just solved the problem lmao
I set the LANG var to en_US.UTF-8 and it compiled successfully