Error in verbose mode when result contains non ascii code

[Patouche]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your work. I notice a small inconvenience using when I tried to print unicode characters. I got the problem only when I use the -v ansible option.

For example, if you define the following playbook :

---
- name: "Test case for issue unicode"
  hosts: first
  tasks:
    - name: "Error when using -v"
      command: echo -e "\xe2\x98\xba\x0a"

This will produce the output in verbose mode :

[WARNING]: Failure using method (v2_runner_on_ok) in callback plugin (<ansible.plugins.callback.anstomlog.CallbackModule object at 0x7f21b4605c90>): 'ascii'
codec can't encode character u'\u263a' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Once again, thanks for you work.

Patrick

[Pierre Baillet]

Thanks for the report, I'll look into it quickly.

[Pierre Baillet]

Let me know if this works!

[Truc Nguyen]

Hello, thanks for your work and for this fix.

1. While testing with your test playbook:

---
- name: "Test case for issue unicode"
  hosts: first
  tasks:
   - debug:
       msg: "Ansible est ÉLÉGANT!"
   - name: "Error when using -v"
     command: echo -e "\xe2\x98\xba\x0a"

I got the following message printed:

[2017-03-03 15:01:17.122] debug |   - msg: Ansible est ?L?GANT!

Is this what expected? Did I miss something in my environment?

2. Besides I still get an error if I use special characters in a tas name, eg:

---
- name: "Test case for issue unicode"
  hosts: first
  tasks:
   - name: "Error with élégant name"
     debug: msg="Hello world!"

Should I open a new issue for that one?

Thanks.

[Pierre Baillet]

1. As for me I have:

[2017-03-03 16:09:36.603] debug |   - msg: Ansible est ÉLÉGANT!

Displayed in the console.
My locale is LC_ALL="en_US.utf-8" and my console font knows how to display unicode. But I don't know why it would fail with you. What's your OS/shell/locale combination?

2. No error in the second case either:

[2017-03-03 16:11:45.717] Error with élégant name | localhost | SUCCESS | 33ms
[2017-03-03 16:11:45.717] Error with élégant name | {
[2017-03-03 16:11:45.717] Error with élégant name |   - msg: Hello world!
[2017-03-03 16:11:45.717] Error with élégant name | }

[Truc Nguyen]

Hello,

Thanks for the hints. Actually I am using the callback from a Docker container.
It works now and here's what I needed to add to my Dockerfile:

RUN locale-gen en_US.UTF-8  
ENV LANG en_US.UTF-8  
ENV LANGUAGE en_US:en  
ENV LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8

Thanks again.