ansible/changelogs/fragments/71739-remove-em-dash-from-pytest-config.yml
Tadej Borovšak 74a103d655 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.
2020-09-14 09:02:48 -07:00

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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)