From 217c70e9ea20c2872a66b34294e559a113250569 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggleton Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 09:16:22 +1300 Subject: devtool: check locale and refuse to start if it isn't UTF-8 We need to ensure the locale is UTF-8 or otherwise strange errors will occur later on during execution - the same reason we check this in BitBake itself. Unfortunately this check has to be before command line parsing and therefore showing the help text in response to --help, since that relies upon parsing bitbake's configuration (as we need to load plugins in other layers). Fixes [YOCTO #10908]. Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton --- scripts/devtool | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/devtool b/scripts/devtool index 0866be9d5f..c9ad9ddb95 100755 --- a/scripts/devtool +++ b/scripts/devtool @@ -215,6 +215,9 @@ def main(): global config global context + if sys.getfilesystemencoding() != "utf-8": + sys.exit("Please use a locale setting which supports utf-8.\nPython can't change the filesystem locale after loading so we need a utf-8 when python starts or things won't work.") + context = Context(fixed_setup=False) # Default basepath -- cgit 1.2.3-korg