Require UTF-8 fs encoding

http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2014/09/setting-lang-and-lcall-when-using.html

https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/5887

Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <cheimes@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ipalib/errors.py b/ipalib/errors.py
index fb7fb4e2a..3a40fa28d 100644
--- a/ipalib/errors.py
+++ b/ipalib/errors.py
@@ -452,6 +452,18 @@ class EnvironmentError(PublicError):
 
     errno = 912
 
+
+class SystemEncodingError(PublicError):
+    """
+    **913** Raised when system encoding is not UTF-8
+    """
+
+    errno = 913
+    format = _(
+        "System encoding must be UTF-8, '%(encoding)s' is not supported. "
+        "Set LC_ALL=\"C.UTF-8\", or LC_ALL=\"\" and LC_CTYPE=\"C.UTF-8\"."
+    )
+
 ##############################################################################
 # 1000 - 1999: Authentication errors
 class AuthenticationError(PublicError):
diff --git a/ipalib/plugable.py b/ipalib/plugable.py
index 66a200ea3..b1fba368d 100644
--- a/ipalib/plugable.py
+++ b/ipalib/plugable.py
@@ -485,6 +485,11 @@ class API(ReadOnly):
         handler.setFormatter(ipa_log_manager.Formatter(LOGGING_FORMAT_STDERR))
         root_logger.addHandler(handler)
 
+        # check after logging is set up but before we create files.
+        fse = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+        if fse.lower() not in {'utf-8', 'utf8'}:
+            raise errors.SystemEncodingError(encoding=fse)
+
         # Add file handler:
         if self.env.mode in ('dummy', 'unit_test'):
             return  # But not if in unit-test mode