Error when npm package readme is utf-8 encoded: "readme_file.rb:42:in `match': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError)" about licensed

[jonabc]

👋 @cnaslain glad to see things are still moving along.

It looks like the error you posted is from a missing package, e.g. not having run npm install first. Since the issue is about utf-8 encoded content I'm assuming this is the wrong stack trace and you already got past that 👍

There's a long term and a (probable) short term fix for this.

Long term: If you have the time and are feeling up to it, you can fix this in licensee! This was reported in licensee awhile back but it looks like the fix was never followed up on and didn't make it into the gem.

Short term: Try adding ENV LANG C.UTF-8 to your Dockerfile. I think I hit the same issue when I was playing around with licensed + docker, and that was the fix 😄

[cnaslain]

@jonabc Thanks for the tip! Adding ENV LANG C.UTF-8 to my dockerfile did the job :-)