Running knife with unicode input gives rise to error: "data not multiple of block length (OpenSSL::Cipher::CipherError)"

I've since discovered the original issue is me using unicode characters to describe the role on the command line.

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Should have already done that, I think!

On 13 Jul 2012, at 16:57, Bryan McLellan (JIRA) wrote:

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>> Running knife with unicode input gives rise to error: "data not multiple of block length (OpenSSL::Cipher::CipherError)"
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>> Key: CHEF-3288
>> URL: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3288
>> Project: Chef
>> Issue Type: Bug
>> Components: Knife
>> Affects Versions: 10.12.0
>> Reporter: Chris Parsons
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>> Attempting to run a unicode command via chef will give the following stacktrace.
>> This is traced to an underlying bug in Net::SSH. A workaround is given on the following pull request:
>> https://github.com/opscode/chef/pull/334
>> Might need further discussion before merging.
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I'm resolving this ticket as fixed because it contains a patch. In the future, please remember to resolve tickets as fixed when you provide a solution. This way we can find tickets with resolutions and add them to the project.

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Will merge, needs to be guarded with a .respond_to? as force_encoding doesn't exist in Ruby 1.8.

Also, a regression unit test (chef/chef/spec/unit) would be great.

Merged to 10-stable.

Reopening. This breaks on 1.8 since we didn't add the guard.

Required fix: https://github.com/stevendanna/chef/compare/opscode:10-stable...stevendanna:CHEF-3288

merged regression fix.