On 8 August 2016 at 18:41, Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>
wrote:

> due to python3's misdesigned string handling, recent bitbake/OE enforces
> 'LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8'.  This causes a lot of problems:
>

I can confirm that this combination solves the file encoding problem:

$ export LANG=C
$ python3 -c 'import sys; print(sys.getfilesystemencoding())'
ascii
$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
$ python3 -c 'import sys; print(sys.getfilesystemencoding())'
utf-8

Ross