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what does this show:
$ locale
$ git clone https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo
$ cd git-repo
$ git tag -v v2.3

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It shows:

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=lzh_TW
LC_TIME=lzh_TW
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=lzh_TW
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=lzh_TW
LC_NAME=lzh_TW
LC_ADDRESS=lzh_TW
LC_TELEPHONE=lzh_TW
LC_MEASUREMENT=lzh_TW
LC_IDENTIFICATION=lzh_TW
LC_ALL=

~/git-repo$ git tag -v v2.3
object 0b57eed8f00d81047b1d4738e4dd52978fc2d4ff
type commit
tag v2.3
tagger Mike Frysinger <vapier@google.com> 1581553127 -0500

repo 2.3
gpg: Signature made 廿廿年二月十三日 (週四) 八時十八��
gpg:                using DSA key 8BB9AD793E8E6153AF0F9A4416530D5E920F5C65
gpg:                issuer "repo@android.kernel.org"
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key

you should be using lzh_TW.UTF-8 for your locale settings, not lzh_TW.  i don't know what encoding that defaults to, but i'm guessing it's not UTF-8.  you can prob show that by using `locale -c charmap`.

Hello,
I did the following steps to modify the locale settings, but the error still happened:

$ locale -c charmap
LC_CTYPE
UTF-8


$ sudo locale-gen
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  en_AG.UTF-8... done
  en_AU.UTF-8... done
  en_BW.UTF-8... done
  en_CA.UTF-8... done
  en_DK.UTF-8... done
  en_GB.UTF-8... done
  en_HK.UTF-8... done
  en_IE.UTF-8... done
  en_IL.UTF-8... done
  en_IN.UTF-8... done
  en_NG.UTF-8... done
  en_NZ.UTF-8... done
  en_PH.UTF-8... done
  en_SG.UTF-8... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  en_ZA.UTF-8... done
  en_ZM.UTF-8... done
  en_ZW.UTF-8... done
  lzh_TW.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.


$ sudo update-locale LC_ALL="lzh_TW.UTF-8"


I logged in system again and


$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="lzh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="lzh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="lzh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="lzh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="lzh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="lzh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="lzh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="lzh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="lzh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="lzh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="lzh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="lzh_TW.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=lzh_TW.UTF-8

Hello,

I installed the older repo version from https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo-1
The "repo init" turned out to work again.

But with the same locale settings, the utf-8 error still occurred with the latest repo v2.3 .

The versions of python in my host OS:
Python 2.7.17
Python 3.6.9

the output of gpg there is def wrong.  it's not valid UTF-8 -- that's why monorail is rendering it as U+FFFD (replacement character).  something on your system is broken.

that said, for programs like `git tag -v`, we care only about the exit status.  invalid output can be ignored (or just a warning).

https://crbug.com/gerrit/12337 merged to make it non-fatal.  you'll still see a warning, but that's to be expected when gpg/git emit invalid UTF-8 sequences.

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