[PATCH] filter: set environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING to utf-8

[roy at marples.name (Roy Marples)]

On 04/03/2017 12:35, John Keeping wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 03:48:23PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
>> This allows different versions of Python to be used rather than
>> forcing version specific encoding in each script.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>
>> ---
>>  filter.c                       | 8 ++++++++
>>  filters/email-gravatar.py      | 3 ---
>>  filters/syntax-highlighting.py | 5 +----
>>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> Neat!  This definitely makes writing it easier to get it right with
> Python filters, but having filter_env_set seems unnecessary.
> 
> Is there a reason not to either:
> 
> 1) set PYTHONIOENCODING unconditionally early in startup
> 
> or
> 
> 2) set the environment in the child after forking

No reason.
I went this approach so that it's only set once when needed, happy to
re-base my work with either of the two above options.

Roy