Re: [Fab-user] remote host output encoding

[Jeff Forcier]

Unfortunately, Fabric isn't great with Unicode at the moment so
there's no 'easy way' you're overlooking. If you're worried that you
can't reliably .decode('utf-8'), which is the usual thing I see folks
do here (in general - not necessarily in fab) then I think your remote
encoding test probably is a good place to start.

Could maybe also test e.g. 'echo $LANG' but if you know the remote
node has Python already, using the locale module is a nice shortcut.

-Jeff

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been searching for information on character encoding and fabric but
> coming up empty.  I've got a command printing an occasional Unicode char and
> so when using the result object I get a UnicodeDecodeError:
>
>     output = run('unicode_printer')
>
>     'returned: ' + output  # kaboom
>
>     UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 0:
>     ordinal not in range(128)
>
> What should I do about this?  I could hard-code it to decode with utf8, but
> can't guarantee it will be utf8.  I can imagine running a command earlier to
> get the encoding and then decoding it.  For example:
>
>     encoding = run("python2 -c 'import locale; " +
>                    "print locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]'")
>
>     output = run('unicode_printer')
>
>     'returned: ' + output.decode(encoding)
>
> Wondering if there was a parameter or easier way that I'm missing.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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