snapcraft register doesn't support non-latin characters
Metadata
Current evaluation
Snapcraft 2.43.1 register crashed when its confirmation prompt emitted U+2018 under a non-UTF-8 locale; the current ASCII-only prompt resolves the reported path.
Suggested action: close resolved
Reason: The traceback fails specifically on U+2018 emitted by the register confirmation prompt, and the reporter confirmed that LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 avoids it. Commit 1c4f5ed72 introduced the current StoreRegisterCommand, whose confirmation text uses only ASCII quotes and no longer routes the prompt through Click, eliminating the reported failure.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
Impact:
34
Quick Win:
23
Complexity:
24
Confidence:
89
Actionability:
88
Issue body
Using this file:
https://github.com/kornelski/pngquant/blob/8b686cd3c32704f4dbe0e0904f1ec87d60d6e64e/snapcraft.yaml
and running snapcraft register pngquant I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/snapcraft", line 9, in <module>
load_entry_point('snapcraft==2.43.1', 'console_scripts', 'snapcraft')()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 716, in __call__
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 696, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1060, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 889, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 534, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/snapcraft/cli/store.py", line 115, in register
if click.confirm(_MESSAGE_REGISTER_CONFIRM.format(snap_name)):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/termui.py", line 138, in confirm
echo(prompt, nl=False, err=err)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/utils.py", line 259, in echo
file.write(message)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u2018' in position 255: ordinal not in range(256)
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha |
Impact:
34
Quick Win:
23
Complexity:
24
Confidence:
89
Actionability:
88
|
close resolved | Snapcraft 2.43.1 register crashed when its confirmation prompt emitted U+2018 under a non-UTF-8 locale; the current ASCII-only prompt resolves the reported path. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha |
Impact:
35
Quick Win:
28
Complexity:
10
Confidence:
94
Actionability:
90
|
close resolved | Snapcraft 2.43.1's register confirmation could crash under a Latin-1 locale after emitting U+2018; the current command uses ASCII-only text and no longer has this failure. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha |
Impact:
35
Quick Win:
9
Complexity:
25
Confidence:
68
Actionability:
35
|
needs triage | The v2.43.1 register confirmation prompt can crash with UnicodeEncodeError in a Latin-1 terminal. The affected Click code has since been replaced, but UTF-8 locale output was not verified. | |
| qwen/qwen3.8-27b |
Impact:
30
Quick Win:
22
Staleness:
95
Complexity:
25
Confidence:
72
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | snapcraft register crashes with UnicodeEncodeError on latin-1 terminals due to non-latin chars in click.confirm prompt. Reported against v2.43.1 (2018); code path since rewritten to craft-cli emit/input, no maintainer interaction in 7.7 years. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
98
Complexity:
25
Confidence:
90
Support Request:
5
|
close stale | Reports a UnicodeEncodeError when running snapcraft register due to non-latin characters in CLI prompts. Issue is 7.5 years old with no maintainer response or labels. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
100
Complexity:
20
Confidence:
95
Support Request:
0
|
close stale | snapcraft register fails with UnicodeEncodeError when snap name contains non-latin characters. Issue is 7+ years old with no activity or maintainer response. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
98
Complexity:
30
Confidence:
80
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | Reports a UnicodeEncodeError when registering a snap with non-Latin characters using snapcraft 2.43.1. The stack trace points to the click library's terminal encoding limitation. No maintainer response in over 7 years. |
Update history
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Related work
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Related To:
snapcraft (launchpad)#1649181
(confidence 85%)
Another legacy Snapcraft issue reports locale-dependent ASCII encoding failures, although it concerns a different command and subsystem.
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