[Bug 1796840] Re: do-release-upgrade doesn't work with C locale

[Juhani Numminen]

Isn't that a known problem with Python?

A workaround might be to use the C.UTF-8 locale instead of C.

>From https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0538/
> The simplest way to deal with this problem for currently released versions of CPython is to explicitly set a more sensible locale when launching the application. For example:
>
> LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 python3 ...

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Title:
  do-release-upgrade doesn't work with C locale

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  How to repeat:

  % LANG=C do-release-upgrade                                                                  ~
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade", line 121, in <module>
      print(_("Checking for a new Ubuntu release"))
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-12: ordinal not in range(128)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.10.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-34.37-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-34-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu11
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Tue Oct  9 12:14:04 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-10 (1732 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-10-08 (0 days ago)

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