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...u 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.wordpres...

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:06 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 09:14:03PM +0300, Sam Eiderman wrote: > > The python3 bindings create PyUnicode objects from application strings > > on the guest (i.e. installed rpm, deb packages). > > It is documented that rpm package fields such as description should be > > utf8 encoded