[Development] RFC: Defaulting to or enforcing UTF-8 locales on Unix systems

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday, 26 April 2020 09:22:00 PDT Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Thursday, 31 October 2019 14:11:05 PDT Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Re: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/275152 (WIP: Move
> > QTextCodec support out of QtCore)
> > See also: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0538/
> > 
> >         https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0540/
> 
> Just sending to the mailing list to get more attention:
> 
> The change above cannot integrate because the new warning breaks the QtTest
> self-tests because the environment where the tests are run is not UTF-8. Can
> the CI be fixed, please?

Apologies, I replied thinking the link above was to my change, but that was 
Rainer's that has since been superseded by Lars's. The change I want to 
integrate is:

https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/282359

The error from the CI is:
	
 FAIL!  : tst_Selftests::runSubTest(assert lightxml + stdout junitxml) 
'err.isEmpty()' returned FALSE. (Detected system locale encoding (US-ASCII, 
locale "C") is not UTF-8.
Qt shall use a UTF-8 locale ("UTF-8") instead. If this causes problems,
reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual for more information.
)

Note this warning is on a Mac, which is an UTF-8 system. Can the CI please set 
up the environment properly?

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  Software Architect - Intel System Software Products