Comment 1 for bug 1015174

I notice

encoding='ANSI_X3.4-1968'

which is weird, because we should read the files with encoding='UTF-8' I think.

This may be happening because the locale is not set and the default charset is used, see this:

charset 'C' (canonical name: ANSI_X3.4-1968) will be used.

So one solution would be to explicitly set the encoding for when a file is read.

This is just speculation though. BTW, this has happened only on server installations which are more prone to having weird language configurations: contrast values of LANG, on desktop it's for example "en_US.UTF-8", while on server it just has "en_US".

I'll keep looking into this.