default LANG settings in CLI Docker container image result in Unicode errors

[mokhirashakira]

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Describe the bug
aws ecr describe-image-scan-findings throws a ascii' codec can't encode character '\u2019' in position 197: ordinal not in range(128)

SDK version number

Platform/OS/Hardware/Device
What are you running the cli on?
Using jenkins to pull in the latest amazon/aws-cli container.

To Reproduce (observed behavior)

aws ecr describe-image-scan-findings --repository-name $repo --image-id imageTag=$imageTag --output json

Expected behavior
I was expecting the command to complete.

Logs/output

                "name": "CVE-2020-26559",
                "description": 2021-10-08 17:37:09,392 - MainThread - awscli.clidriver - DEBUG - Exception caught in main()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "awscli/clidriver.py", line 459, in main
  File "awscli/clidriver.py", line 594, in __call__
  File "awscli/clidriver.py", line 770, in __call__
  File "awscli/clidriver.py", line 903, in invoke
  File "awscli/clidriver.py", line 925, in _display_response
  File "awscli/formatter.py", line 88, in __call__
  File "awscli/formatter.py", line 107, in _format_response
  File "json/__init__.py", line 180, in dump
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u2019' in position 197: ordinal not in range(128)

'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u2019' in position 197: ordinal not in range(128)

Additional context
I ran locale from the aws-cli

+ locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

[kdaily]

Hi @mokhirashakira,

I tried this with another command that also had a similar issue. Could you try to prepend your command with LANG="en_US.UTF-8" to see if forcing it to use UTF-8 resolves?

You may need to (as it looks like you previously did to check the locale) override the entrypoint into the container.

Try something like:

docker run --rm -it -v ~/.aws:/root/.aws --entrypoint /bin/bash amazon/aws-cli:latest

Then:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8" aws ecr describe-image-scan-findings --repository-name reponame --image-id imageTag=$imageTag --output json

[mokhirashakira]

That worked perfectly, thank you so much. I was trying to export those variables before this command but they weren't persisting.

[mokhirashakira]

@kdaily can you update your answer to remove the repo name, please?

[kdaily]

Done. I removed the revisions of your original post and mine that had the repo names as well.

[mokhirashakira]

Thank you!

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