Bug 916504 – after world update UnicodeEncodeErrors in install phase for ca-certificates and libxcb

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 913655
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Enrique Domínguez 2023-10-29 20:06:56 UTC]

My locale was en_US.iso88591 for years but after world (python) upgrade I found install errors about UnicodeEncodeError ("UnicodeEncodeError: 'X' codec can't encode characters in position..." with X anything different from utf8) Problem looks like 'write' function defaults to errors='Strict' maybe better with a 'replace' function. Not idea how to do it. BUGs possibly related: 913655, 707026, 403681, 353299. I'm not a python programmer.
Maybe useful,
https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#io.TextIOBase.write
Not at hand but could look for previous portage version which did not show this behavior if necessary.
Hope its helps.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Sam James 2023-10-29 20:14:34 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 913655 ***

[Comment 2 Sam James 2023-10-29 20:15:03 UTC]

I think this is just because more software is using stuff with fancier names. ca-certificates had a bug with it recently because it just started installing one.

Please use a UTF 8 locale.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2023-10-30 01:15:54 UTC]

You can also use a special environment variable, like export PYTHONUTF8=1 to enable python UTF8 mode (it is proposed to be the default behavior in python 3.15):

https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#python-utf-8-mode