fix: set locale to C.UTF8

Ansible now tests that its locale supports UTF8 (I don't know why).

Also, log the environment, to help debug this kind of thing in the
future.

Sponsored-by: author

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/vmdb/runcmd.py b/vmdb/runcmd.py
index 67acde1..116c6cb 100644
--- a/vmdb/runcmd.py
+++ b/vmdb/runcmd.py
@@ -46,10 +46,12 @@ def progress(msg):
 def runcmd(argv, **kwargs):
     progress("Exec: %r" % (argv,))
     env = kwargs.get("env", os.environ.copy())
-    env["LC_ALL"] = "C"
+    env["LC_ALL"] = "C.UTF8"
     kwargs["env"] = env
     kwargs["stdout"] = kwargs.get("stdout", subprocess.PIPE)
     kwargs["stderr"] = kwargs.get("stderr", subprocess.PIPE)
+    for name in env:
+        logging.debug(f"ENV: {name}={env[name]}")
     p = subprocess.Popen(argv, **kwargs)
     out, err = p.communicate()
     logging.debug("STDOUT: %s", out.decode("UTF8"))