Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH v3] python: Fix UnicodeError in inspect_list_applications2() (RHBZ#1684004)

Hi Sam, I was doing some work on the Python bindings, starting with removing support for Python 2 since it's EOL. I thought I would have a look at this patch. So firstly I think the last version posted is: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2020-April/msg00190.html My impression of this is that we shouldn't just hack the Python bindings to make this apparently work. But I wanted to ask you a few questions about this: - Does the SUSE RPM output contain a mix of encodings? Or is it all latin-1 or utf-8? - Is there any indication of the correct encoding from RPM? - Can we not instead escape the bad sequences using whatever is the C-level equivalent of str.encode(..., 'backslashreplace')? Or I guess better, escape them as Unicode compatibility characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_compatibility_characters Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/