Hi Markus, Great! Just to let you know of some additional quirks Rob and I found about unicode. Windows filesystems do not seem to like UTF-8, so you should use the to_str and to_unicode functions in libtbx/utils.py if you want to handle non-ASCII filenames on Windows. They default to 'mbcs' for the encoding codec on Windows. -- Billy K. Poon Research Scientist, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road, M/S 33R0345 Berkeley, CA 94720 Tel: (510) 486-5709 Fax: (510) 486-5909 Web: https://phenix-online.org On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 1:59 AM, wrote:

Hi Billy,

Thanks for your mail.

As usual, it’s $insertYear and unicode is still not a solved problem :(

I ran into UnicodeEncode/DecodeErrors, but I am now happy that your change only exposed underlying issues in my code (outside of the cctbx/dials/xia2 repositories). I have sprinkled some forced UTF-8 encoding on top, and everything appears to be working fine now.

As to the changed output, that for example includes default wget output where it puts the file it writes to disk in ``quotes’’, and they observe the LC_ALL encoding. Fortunately enough we don’t really care about fancy formatting, so this is not a real problem.

-Markus

Dr Markus Gerstel MBCS

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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*From:* [email protected] [mailto:cctbxbb-bounces@ phenix-online.org] *On Behalf Of *Billy Poon *Sent:* 08 September 2016 19:45 *To:* cctbx mailing list *Cc:* [email protected] *Subject:* Re: [cctbxbb] [Cctbx-cvs] SF.net SVN: cctbx:[25333] trunk/libtbx/env_config.py

Hi Markus,

There is an issue with non-ASCII paths (unicode type) and basic Python functions if the locale (like 'C') does not support UTF-8. Without UTF-8 support, these functions try to convert the unicode type into a str type with the 'ascii' encoding, which triggers a UnicodeEncodeError. I attached a script that tests it. The unicode path should fail for libtbx.python before my change and pass for after my change. Or change the LC_ALL setting in the build/bin/libtbx.python dispatcher (if the en_US locale is available, en_US will fail, en_US.UTF-8 will work).

An additional wrinkle is that LC_ALL=C works fine on my mac (OS X 10.10.5). Also, there is a "C.UTF-8" locale on Ubuntu, but not on CentOS.

Basically, to support non-ASCII paths (unicode type) in basic Python functions, any locale with UTF-8 or utf8 will work. The en_US part is not that important.

What are the errors that you get? I ran the regression tests for dials (libtbx.run_tests_parallel module=dials) and dials_regression (module=dials_regression) and everything passes except for one test in dials_regression (dials_regression/test.py). But the error seems to be about a goniometer object. Do you have the en_US locale installed?

Right now, I'm just checking if LC_ALL is set in the user environment and using that if it has the extra UTF-8 part. I can also check the LANG environment variable. That might be work better for users that do not have the en_US locale installed.

--

Billy K. Poon

Research Scientist, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

1 Cyclotron Road, M/S 33R0345

Berkeley, CA 94720

Tel: (510) 486-5709

Fax: (510) 486-5909

Web: https://phenix-online.org

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 2:26 AM, wrote:

Hi,

I just spent some time tracking software crashes to this change. Is setting the default to en_US really appropriate and what we want? In particular it affects the output of downstream, external software we run from within python.

What is the unicode issue you hint at in the commit message?

-Markus

Dr Markus Gerstel MBCS Postdoctoral Research Associate Tel: +44 1235 778698

Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond House Harwell Science & Innovation Campus Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0DE

-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 07 September 2016 00:54 To: [email protected] Subject: [Cctbx-cvs] SF.net SVN: cctbx:[25333] trunk/libtbx/env_config.py

Revision: 25333 http://sourceforge.net/p/cctbx/code/25333 Author: bkpoon Date: 2016-09-06 23:54:29 +0000 (Tue, 06 Sep 2016) Log Message: ----------- Unicode support: set LC_ALL in dispatchers to the one in the user's environment (if available, and supports UTF-8), otherwise use the default setting of en_US.UTF-8; fixes unicode issue with python in Linux (e.g. os.path functions do not work correctly with unicode if LC_ALL=C

Modified Paths: -------------- trunk/libtbx/env_config.py

Modified: trunk/libtbx/env_config.py =================================================================== --- trunk/libtbx/env_config.py 2016-09-06 21:15:34 UTC (rev 25332) +++ trunk/libtbx/env_config.py 2016-09-06 23:54:29 UTC (rev 25333) @@ -945,6 +945,15 @@

def write_bin_sh_dispatcher(self, source_file, target_file, source_is_python_exe=False): + + # determine LC_ALL from environment (Python UTF-8 compatibility in Linux) + LC_ALL = os.environ.get('LC_ALL') # user setting + if (LC_ALL is not None): + if ( ('UTF-8' not in LC_ALL) and ('utf8' not in LC_ALL) ): + LC_ALL = None + if (LC_ALL is None): + LC_ALL = 'en_US.UTF-8' # default + f = target_file.open("w") if (source_file is not None): print >> f, '#! /bin/sh' @@ -975,7 +984,7 @@ print >> f, '#' print >> f, _SHELLREALPATH_CODE print >> f, 'unset PYTHONHOME' - print >> f, 'LC_ALL=C' + print >> f, 'LC_ALL=' + LC_ALL print >> f, 'export LC_ALL' print >> f, 'LIBTBX_BUILD="$(shellrealpath "$0" && cd "$(dirname "$RESULT")/.." && pwd)"' print >> f, 'export LIBTBX_BUILD'

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