From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:16:22 +0000 (+1300)
Subject: devtool: check locale and refuse to start if it isn't UTF-8
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devtool: check locale and refuse to start if it isn't UTF-8

We need to ensure the locale is UTF-8 or otherwise strange errors will
occur later on during execution - the same reason we check this in
BitBake itself. Unfortunately this check has to be before command line
parsing and therefore showing the help text in response to --help, since
that relies upon parsing bitbake's configuration (as we need to load
plugins in other layers).

Fixes [YOCTO #10908].

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
---

diff --git a/scripts/devtool b/scripts/devtool
index 0866be9d5f0..c9ad9ddb955 100755
--- a/scripts/devtool
+++ b/scripts/devtool
@@ -215,6 +215,9 @@ def main():
     global config
     global context
 
+    if sys.getfilesystemencoding() != "utf-8":
+        sys.exit("Please use a locale setting which supports utf-8.\nPython can't change the filesystem locale after loading so we need a utf-8 when python starts or things won't work.")
+
     context = Context(fixed_setup=False)
 
     # Default basepath