[Scons-users] UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa3 in position 3242: illegal multibyte sequence

[Daniel Moody]

On windows you should use the run_ninja_env.bat to ensure that your
environment is setup as the ninja file itself is unable to correctly setup
windows cmdshells.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 1:33 PM Daniel Moody <dmoody256 at gmail.com> wrote:

> As a work around you can run ninja directly. This particular issue is
> scons reading and reprinting the ninja subprocess stdout. I'll see if I can
> reproduce and get a fix.
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 1:11 PM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
>
>> On 4/26/22 06:10, liruncong2018 via Scons-users wrote:
>> >         Hi,
>> >
>> >         The following log appears when compiling with ninja, is there a
>> >         problem with the encoding process?(ninja\__init__.py)
>> >
>> >         ···
>> >
>> >                 [1/2518] Starting scons daemon... [2K
>> >
>> >                 [2/2518] Defer to SCons to build build\__cpp_path.txt
>> [2K
>> >
>> >                 [3/2518] Defer to SCons to build
>> >                 build\__exe_cpp_path.txt [2K
>> >
>> >                 [4/2518] Defer to SCons to build
>> >                 build\__link_objects.txt [2K
>> >
>> >                 [5/2518] Defer to SCons to build
>> >                 build\__define_options.txt [2Kscons: *** [build.ninja]
>> >                 UnicodeDecodeError : 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa3
>> >                 in position 3299: illegal multibyte sequence
>> >
>> >                 Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >
>> >                   File
>> >
>>  "D:\MYBIN\scons-local\scons-local-4.3.1\SCons\Action.py", line
>> >                 1295, in execute
>> >
>> >                     result = self.execfunction(target=target,
>> >                 source=rsources, env=env)
>> >
>> >                   File
>> >
>>  "D:\MYBIN\scons-local\scons-local-4.3.1\SCons\Tool\ninja\__init__.py",
>> >                 line 112, in ninja_builder
>> >
>> >                     for output in execute_ninja():
>> >
>> >                   File
>> >
>>  "D:\MYBIN\scons-local\scons-local-4.3.1\SCons\Tool\ninja\__init__.py",
>> >                 line 104, in execute_ninja
>> >
>> >                     for stdout_line in iter(proc.stdout.readline, ""):
>> >
>> >                 UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa3
>> >                 in position 3299: illegal multibyte sequence
>> >
>>
>> that error usually happens when the system codec isn't what we US-based
>> folk expect, and we haven't specified an encoding for a file/stream when
>> reading in text mode so the system codec gets used.
>>
>>
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