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UTF-8 not working in env variables

See original GitHub issue

file content of testfile:

my variable is {{ VAR }}

This is working: VAR="full of joy" j2 testfile outputs: my variable is full of joy

This is not working: VAR="full of ñ" j2 testfile outputs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/j2", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/j2cli/cli.py", line 124, in main
    sys.argv[1:]
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/j2cli/cli.py", line 114, in render_command
    context
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/j2cli/cli.py", line 54, in render_template
    .render(context) \
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 989, in render
    return self.environment.handle_exception(exc_info, True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 754, in handle_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/home/music/test/j2clitest", line 1, in top-level template code
    saludo: {{ hola }}
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:7 (2 by maintainers)

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kolyptocommented, Dec 26, 2018

Fixed in the new release

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zoobabcommented, Jan 3, 2019

I can confirm it is fixed now on python2.7.

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