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Symbolextractor fails when run on non utf8 locale

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#3,080 opened on Feb 17, 2018

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Description

This happens with meson/ninja, but not with configure/make

[526/882] /usr/local/bin/python3.6 /tmp/tcloop/meson/usr/local/bin/meson --internal symbolextractor glib/libglib-2.0.so.0.5400.3 'glib/glib-2.0@sha/glib/libglib-2.0.so.0.5400.3.symbols' Warning: You are using 'ANSI_X3.4-1968' which is not a Unicode-compatible locale. You might see errors if you use UTF-8 strings as filenames, as strings, or as file contents. Please switch to a UTF-8 locale for your platform. ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

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Investigate the symbolextractor script in the mesonbuild repository. The issue occurs when running with a non UTF8 locale; ensure proper encoding handling or issue a clear error message. Check how configure/make avoids this issue. Consider adding a locale check or fallback. No linked PRs exist; verify the current state of the code.