ESC meeting minutes: 2025-07-03

[Mike Kaganski]

On 7/3/2025 7:35 PM, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>    + bug on windows with meson/python if environment contains value 
> with "ü"
>      + e.g. 
> https://ci.libreoffice.org/job/gerrit_windows/200488/console#:~:text=codec%20can%27t%20decode%20byte%200x81
>      + if someone is familiar with python charsets/any idea why it 
> ends up as 0x81 despite codepage 1252 being detected as default 
> locale/UTF-8 is used in terminal…
>        sys.stdin.encoding --> 'utf-8',
>        locale.getpreferredencoding(do_setlocale=False) --> 'cp1252'
>        + to reproduce: export FOO=ü and make harfbuzz
>      + workaround in jenkins: unset GERRIT/GIT author variables


I don't know how specifically does this mix behaves (cygwin -> python -> 
cmd); but the attached patch fixes the repro command locally for me.


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Best regards,

Mike Kaganski