Bug 446498

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: unicode in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS triggers UnicodeEncodeError in optparse
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Toralf Förster <toralf>
Component:	Core - Configuration	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2012-12-08 17:06:05 UTC

All details are here :
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7199846.html#7199846

In short : A type at the command line is handled right:

$>emerge --deeü
Usage: emerge [options]

emerge: error: no such option: --deeü


similar typo in make.conf however not.

system: stable x86 Gentoo

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-08-25 17:45:38 UTC

Is this still an issue with >=portage-2.2.0 which now uses argparse by default?

Comment 2 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2013-08-26 17:10:16 UTC

fixed in ~x86 - thx