adding LANG LC_ALL PYTHONIOENCODING UTF-8 (#22928)

Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

api/.env.example

@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
 # Alternatively you can set it with `SECRET_KEY` environment variable.
 SECRET_KEY=
 
+# Ensure UTF-8 encoding
+LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8
+
 # Console API base URL
 CONSOLE_API_URL=http://localhost:5001
 CONSOLE_WEB_URL=http://localhost:3000

api/Dockerfile

@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ EXPOSE 5001
 # set timezone
 ENV TZ=UTC
 
+# Set UTF-8 locale
+ENV LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+ENV LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+ENV PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8
+
 WORKDIR /app/api
 
 RUN \

api/docker/entrypoint.sh

@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 set -e
 
+# Set UTF-8 encoding to address potential encoding issues in containerized environments
+export LANG=${LANG:-en_US.UTF-8}
+export LC_ALL=${LC_ALL:-en_US.UTF-8}
+export PYTHONIOENCODING=${PYTHONIOENCODING:-utf-8}
+
 if [[ "${MIGRATION_ENABLED}" == "true" ]]; then
   echo "Running migrations"
   flask upgrade-db