[gentoo-user] Problem building x11-libs:libxcb-1.16

[Neil Bothwick]

I have a desktop PC and and a "hot backup" ready to take over on a
moment's notice. I keep the configs and settings the same. Today I
tried to update both machines. The main desktop was OK, but the hot
backup ran into a prolem with x11-libs:libxcb-1.16 Before anybody asks,
/etc/locale.gen is identical on both. The uncommented lines are...
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
Not sure about the error message
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u201c' in
position 68: ordinal not in range(256)

https://bugs.gentoo.org/913655 appears to have a solution in comment 5.

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[Walter Dnes]

Post by Neil Bothwick

UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u201c' in
position 68: ordinal not in range(256)

https://bugs.gentoo.org/913655 appears to have a solution in comment 5.

Thanks. From the commandline...

export LC_ALL="C"
emerge --changed-use --deep --update @world

...did the trick. But I did have to log out and in and try it a couple
of times before that sequence worked. The very definition of insanity.