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

[Randy Dunlap]

On 08/31/17 09:05, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 08/31/17 07:17, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>> On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 10:56:26 -0300
>>> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

(default)
LANG=C

until I add the patch:
+LANG=C.utf-8

> The odd thing is that I can reproduce the issue using a small python
> snippet, but not through Sphinx.



-- 
~Randy