ansible/changelogs/fragments/71739-remove-em-dash-from-pytest-config.yml

minor_changes:
- ansible-test - Remove em dash from the Pytest configuration file in order to
  be readable on systems where preferred encoding is ASCII.
  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71739)
Remove em dash from the pytest configuration file On some systems (tested with official Debian Buster-based Python 3.6 docker image), setting the LC_ALL environment variable to en_US.UTF-8 will trigger Python into switching its preferred encoding to ASCII. If any python process tries to read a non-ASCII file in this scenario, it will terminate with an error. And this is exactly what happens to pytest when it tries to load its configuration that ansible-test supplies because the configuration contains an em dash. In order to bypass this issue, we replaced the em dash with a regular dash and things started working again. An alternative solution would be to replace the en_US.UTF-8 locale with something safer, but unfortunately, the en_US.UTF-8 is probably as safe as it gets. 2020-09-13 00:25:10 +02:00			`minor_changes:`
			`- ansible-test - Remove em dash from the Pytest configuration file in order to`
			`be readable on systems where preferred encoding is ASCII.`
			`(https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/71739)`