Re: Sphinx parallel build error: UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 18-20: ordinal not in range(256)

[Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>]

Am 07.05.21 um 10:35 schrieb Michal Suchánek:
> So the bottom line is that UTF-8 in the files will stay, and Sphinx
> cannot handle UTF-8 when the locale is not UTF-8.
> 
> In the long run it might be nice to fix Sphinx to properly set the
> encoding of the files it reads and writes. Or maybe there is some
> parameter that specifies it?

Let's not mix things up. The Unicode-Error is not related or limited
to log nor to sphinx, it is related to the fact that we (you) try to
run a utf-8 application in an environment which is not full utf-8
functional.

> For the short term I think it is reasonable to run a python test script
> that prints fancy unicode characters before running Sphinx and bail if
> the test script fails.

To be assure, I recommend to set UTF-8 locale environment in the
Makefile.

My experience shows that this is the default with almost all
containers (images), there are only a few where this is not the
case (may be suse?).

   -- Markus --