[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] utils/getdeveloperlib.py: explicitly set devs document encoding

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Fri Sep 10 11:34:25 UTC 2021


>>>>> "James" == James Knight <james.d.knight at live.com> writes:

 > Explicitly indicate the file encoding to UTF-8 for the DEVELOPERS
 > document. This prevents Unicode decoding errors when printing E-Mail
 > entries with Unicode characters on systems using an alternative default
 > encoding (e.g. 'CP1252').

 > This corrects the following observed error:

 >     $ ./utils/get-developers outgoing/*
 >     Traceback (most recent call last):
 >       File "utils\get-developers", line 105, in <module>
 >         __main__()
 >       File "utils\get-developers", line 47, in __main__
 >         devs = getdeveloperlib.parse_developers()
 >       File "...\buildroot\utils\getdeveloperlib.py", line 239, in parse_developers
 >         for line in f:
 >       File "...\Python<ver>\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
 >         return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
 >     UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 6659: character maps to <undefined>

 > Signed-off-by: James Knight <james.d.knight at live.com>

Committed to 2021.02.x, 2021.05.x and 2021.08.x, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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