Normally locale addon must be installed but users don't know that. Simplify this with adding default C.UTF-8 locale in image. Users can still install addon to use some other locale.
fixes Python3 error
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 40-41: ordinal not in range(128)
like
https://github.com/croneter/PlexKodiConnect/issues/1447https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/23116-pvr-recorder-unsuppored-locale/?postID=147453
from Kodi Python
before
sys.getdefaultencoding(): utf-8
sys.getfilesystemencoding(): ascii
after
sys.getdefaultencoding(): utf-8
sys.getfilesystemencoding(): utf-8
from SSH console
before
# 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=
after
# locale
LANG=C.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="C.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="C.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="C.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="C.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="C.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="C.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="C.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
