UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 137: ordinal not in range(128) (IDFGH-1584)

[franzhoepfinger]

Environment

• IDF version (run git describe --tags to find it):
  v4.0-dev-1342-g84982ae2e

• Build System: [CMake]

• Operating System: [Linux]

Problem Description

when doing
. $HOME/esp/esp-idf/export.sh

i get following error message:

franz@franz-Lenovo-V130-14IKB:~$ . $HOME/esp/esp-idf/export.sh
Adding ESP-IDF tools to PATH...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/franz/esp/esp-idf/tools/idf_tools.py", line 1256, in
main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/home/franz/esp/esp-idf/tools/idf_tools.py", line 1252, in main
action_func(args)
File "/home/franz/esp/esp-idf/tools/idf_tools.py", line 874, in action_export
tool.find_installed_versions()
File "/home/franz/esp/esp-idf/tools/idf_tools.py", line 491, in find_installed_versions
ver_str = self.check_version(self.get_export_paths(version))
File "/home/franz/esp/esp-idf/tools/idf_tools.py", line 435, in check_version
in_str = version_cmd_result.decode()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 137: ordinal not in range(128)

Expected Behavior

no Error Message

Actual Behavior

Error Message

[franzhoepfinger]

[franzhoepfinger]

[franzhoepfinger]

English Ubuntu: no Problem.
German Ububtu: Problem

[AnsgarSchmidt]

English Ubuntu 19.10 has Problems too but decoding 0xd0

[ghost]

+1 same problem with german ubuntu

4.15.0-55-generic

NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"

[wibsea]

Russian Ubuntu 18.04.2
$HOME/esp/esp-idf/export.sh
.
.
.
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

But:
LANG=en_US . $HOME/esp/esp-idf/export.sh
no problem

[aarizaq]

In the file idf_tools.py if you replace the line:
in_str = version_cmd_result.decode()

by:
in_str = version_cmd_result.decode("utf-8")

will solve the problems

[ghost]

Hello @aarizaq

after this change it work.

. ./export.sh
Adding ESP-IDF tools to PATH...
Checking if Python packages are up to date...
Python requirements from /home/andre/Downloads/esp/esp-idf/requirements.txt are satisfied.
Added the following directories to PATH:
/home/andre/Downloads/esp/esp-idf/components/esptool_py/esptool
/home/andre/Downloads/esp/esp-idf/components/espcoredump
/home/andre/Downloads/esp/esp-idf/components/partition_table/
/home/andre/.espressif/tools/xtensa-esp32-elf/esp32-2019r1-8.2.0/xtensa-esp32-elf/bin
/home/andre/.espressif/tools/esp32ulp-elf/2.28.51.20170517/esp32ulp-elf-binutils/bin
/home/andre/.espressif/tools/openocd-esp32/v0.10.0-esp32-20190313/openocd-esp32/bin
/home/andre/.espressif/python_env/idf4.0_py2.7_env/bin
/home/andre/Downloads/esp/esp-idf/tools
Done! You can now compile ESP-IDF projects.
Go to the project directory and run:

idf.py build

[suda-morris]

Sorry for the delay, we will fix the bug soon.