'ascii' codec can't encode character

[sagitter]

Hello!

PETSc-3.11.2’s configure is failing with this error:

'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u2018' in position 72: ordinal not in range(128)

I don’t understand what is the unrecognised character..

configure.log is attached.

[sagitter]

Move this issue to petsc/issues/313.

Sorry.