Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: kernel-doc comments are ASCII

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> On 08/31/17 09:36, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
>>>> On 08/31/17 07:17, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 10:56:26 -0300
>>>>> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It should have something to do with python version and/or to some
>>>>>> locale info at the system, as neither I or Jon can reproduce it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't reproduce it here, but I have certainly seen situations where
>>>>> Python 2 wants to run with the ascii codec by default.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that the exception happens in our Sphinx extension, not in Sphinx
>>>>> itself.  We've had other non-ascii text in our docs, so I think Sphinx is
>>>>> doing the right thing.  The problem is with our own code.  If I could
>>>>> reproduce it, it shouldn't be too hard to track down - take out that
>>>>> massive "except anything" block and see where it explodes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Randy, which distribution are you running, and are you using their version
>>>>> of Sphinx?
>>>>
>>>> opensuse LEAP 42.2
>>>> Yes, their sphinx 1.3.1.
>>>
>>> What's your LANG setting? I think that's what it boils down to, and
>>> trying to work around non-UTF-8 LANG in both python 2 and 3 compatible
>>> ways.
>>>
>>> The odd thing is that I can reproduce the issue using a small python
>>> snippet, but not through Sphinx.
>> 
>> Your original error message suggests your Sphinx actually uses python
>> 3. Can you check that? The clue is that it's the *decode* that fails.
>
> Where do you see that clue?

The message, "'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 6368:
ordinal not in range(128)". In my testing I could only get that *decode*
error message using python 3.

> My /usr/bin/python is linked to python2.7:
>
>> ll /usr/bin/python
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jun 10 19:59 /usr/bin/python -> python2.7*

Sure, but how about 'head $(which sphinx-build)'?

I could be completely mistaken too. ;)

>> Does the below patch help? It avoids the implicit ascii decoding due to
>> universal_newlines=True and your LANG setting, and does explicit utf-8
>> decoding instead.
>> 
>> Fingers crossed.
>
> testing now.

Thanks.

BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center