[Pkg-salt-team] Bug#770909: salt: Crash when unicode characters appear in file or command output

[Joe Healy]

Package: salt
Version: 2014.1.13+ds-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When a unicode character appears in the output of a command or a diff of a
file, then salt command crashes

   * What led up to the situation?
Changing a file with a unicode character on the same line or running a command
with some non ascii output

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

It should not crash because of non ascii output.

There are a number of upstream bugs regarding this:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/16651
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/16713
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/18053

The fix for these is equivalent and is done by ensuring that the output can be
converted to ascii (either by trying multiple encodings or using python's repr
function)


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