From: Michal Fox <me@dualfroz.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH common 1/2] fix #6305: cli formatter: avoid encoding YAML output twice
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2026 14:32:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261004143202.7-2-me@dualfroz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261004143202.7-1-me@dualfroz.com>
YAML::XS::Dump already returns UTF-8 encoded octets, but its output
still got encoded once more. This is a leftover from when the YAML
output was generated by CPAN::Meta::YAML, which returns a character
string.
As a result, all non-ASCII characters got mangled with the 'yaml'
output format, for example a cluster description with a German umlaut
when running:
pvesh get /cluster/options --output-format yaml
Print the output of YAML::XS::Dump as is, like it is already done for
the 'json' output format, and add a test for the encoding of both.
Fixes: 99d0252 ("properly encode YAML via YAML::XS")
Signed-off-by: Michal Fox <me@dualfroz.com>
---
src/PVE/CLIFormatter.pm | 3 ++-
test/format_test.pl | 15 +++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/PVE/CLIFormatter.pm b/src/PVE/CLIFormatter.pm
index ca4ee08..d93bed6 100644
--- a/src/PVE/CLIFormatter.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/CLIFormatter.pm
@@ -380,7 +380,8 @@ sub print_api_result {
}
if ($format eq 'yaml') {
- print encode('UTF-8', YAML::XS::Dump($data));
+ # Note: YAML::XS already returns UTF-8 encoded output
+ print YAML::XS::Dump($data);
} elsif ($format eq 'json') {
# Note: we always use utf8 encoding for json format
print to_json($data, { utf8 => 1, allow_nonref => 1, canonical => 1 }) . "\n";
diff --git a/test/format_test.pl b/test/format_test.pl
index 7b461ef..8ccfd5a 100755
--- a/test/format_test.pl
+++ b/test/format_test.pl
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use lib '../src';
use PVE::JSONSchema;
use PVE::CLIFormatter;
+use Encode qw(decode);
use Test::More;
use Test::MockModule;
@@ -53,4 +54,18 @@ foreach my $data (@$render_data) {
is($actual, $expected, "string format '$renderer_name'");
}
+# test that non-ASCII characters survive the structured output formats
+my $unicode_data = { description => "Erkl\x{e4}rung" };
+for my $format (qw(json yaml)) {
+ open(my $fh, '>', \my $output) or die "failed to open in-memory file - $!\n";
+ my $stdout = select($fh);
+ PVE::CLIFormatter::print_api_result(
+ $unicode_data, undef, undef, { 'output-format' => $format }, {},
+ );
+ select($stdout);
+ close($fh);
+
+ like(decode('UTF-8', $output), qr/Erkl\x{e4}rung/, "output format '$format' is UTF-8 encoded");
+}
+
done_testing();
--
2.43.0
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2026-10-04 14:32 [PATCH common 0/2] cli formatter: fix double UTF-8 encoding of YAML Michal Fox
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2026-10-04 14:32 ` [PATCH common 2/2] cli formatter: decode the output of the yaml renderer Michal Fox
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