From bd8d45054245666321ea1c7360d86504aefa9865 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Sargent <philip.sargent@klebos.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:12:13 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] UTF-8 check inserted into databasereset

---
 databaseReset.py | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/databaseReset.py b/databaseReset.py
index c2a0d9bd..1d8427bc 100644
--- a/databaseReset.py
+++ b/databaseReset.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import time
 import timeit
 import json
 import resource
+import locale
 
 import settings
 """ Command-line utility for loading cave data files into troggle's database.
@@ -353,6 +354,16 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         print("Do not run as root or using sudo - file permissions for cache files and logs will break")
         print("Aborting run.")
         exit()
+
+    if sys.getfilesystemencoding() != "utf-8":
+        print("UTF-8 is NOT the default file encoding. You must fix this.")
+        print(f'- {sys.getdefaultencoding()=}')
+        print(f'- {sys.getfilesystemencoding()=}')
+        print(f'- {locale.getdefaultlocale()=}')
+        print(f'- {locale.getpreferredencoding()=}')
+        print("Aborting run.")
+        exit()
+
     if len(sys.argv)>2:
         runlabel = sys.argv[len(sys.argv)-1]
     else: