Executing aws cli using php in windows - error unknown encoding

Question

Trying to invoke the aws cli from php, but a simple test shell_exec('aws help'); will result in the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "aws", line 27, in <module>
  File "aws", line 23, in main
  File "awscli\clidriver.pyc", line 59, in main
  File "awscli\clidriver.pyc", line 197, in main
  File "awscli\argparser.pyc", line 100, in parse_known_args
LookupError: unknown encoding: cp65001

It works perfectly fine when running directly in command-window (cmd.exe).

Python version:

Python 3.7.0 (v3.7.0:1bf9cc5093, Jun 27 2018, 04:06:47) [MSC v.1914 32 bit (Intel)] on win32

For some reason shell_exec is defaulting to use utf8 / cp65001...

Baked Inhalf · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-23 10:41:41Z

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Finally found a solution after trying to set different locale config and php settings.

A call to chcp before any shell_exec solved it!

exec("chcp 850");

edited Feb 23, 2019 at 10:41

answered Feb 23, 2019 at 9:04

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