Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/2] Revert commit d4e5ec877ca

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> writes:

> From: Matthias Maier <tamiko@43-1.org>
>
> This commit removes the PYTHON_UTF8 workaround. The problem with setting
>
>   LC_ALL= LANG=C LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>
> is that the en_US.UTF-8 locale might not be available. In this case
> setting above locales results in build errors even though another UTF-8
> locale was originally set [1]. The only stable way of fixing the
> encoding problem is by explicitly annotating encoding/decoding in the
> python script.

I'd like to tweak the last sentence to

    The only stable way of fixing the encoding problem is by specifying
    the encoding in Python, like the previous commit does.

if there are no objections.

>
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/657766
>
> Signed-off-by: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Maier <tamiko@43-1.org>
> Message-Id: <20180615220205.6929-3-tamiko@43-1.org>