Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Partially revert commit d4e5ec877ca

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:43:56AM -0500, Matthias Maier wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the patches.  It's nice to see that hack go away.

Patch 2/2 is necessary to make the removal of PYTHON_UTF8 safe,
correct?  In that case, I plan to reverse the order of the
patches before applying.

> 
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/657766
[...]

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Eduardo