Changes in v2:
* Improve commit message - the ENV issues only happen when Perl's
  internal representation is not valid UTF-8 itself.
* Rebase on latest master.

There are multiple issues with UTF-8 password handling for PBS backup:

1. As reported in the community forum, PBS backup of VMs would not
work when the password contained a multi-byte UTF-8 character. The
first patch fixes this by properly encoding the JSON sent via QMP.

2. The PBS password is saved as UTF-8 and decoded to Perl's internal
string representation upon reading from the password file. When the
password is not valid UTF-8 in Perl's internal representation, which
for example happens with a password like 'ääääöööö', backing up a
diskless VM would fail with:
> Error: error building client for repository XXX -
> PBS_PASSWORD contains bad characters

3. The same error would occur for uploading the log file after backup, as
well as extracting the configuration file from backup.

4. Restoring would fail with:
> restore failed: invalid utf-8 sequence of 1 bytes from index 0

Fix issues 2.-4. by properly encoding the value for the PBS_PASSWORD
environment variable value again as UTF-8.

5. For PMG, using passwords that would be auto-encoded by Perl as either
ASCII or UTF-8 already worked, but other encodings would not, for
example ISO-8859 would result in:
> proxmox-backup-client failed: Error: error building client for
> repository latin@[email protected]:8007:bigone - PBS_PASSWORD
> contains bad characters (500)

Follow pve-storage commit 5245e04 ("fix #5181: pbs: store and read
passwords as unicode") and align the behavior of the storage plugin
and pbs client module.

qemu-server:

Fiona Ebner (2):
  qmp client: encode JSON as UTF-8 to fix PBS backup when password
    contains multi-byte UTF-8
  pbs: properly encode PBS password as UTF-8 when setting the
    environment variable

 src/PVE/QMPClient.pm         | 14 ++++++++------
 src/PVE/QemuServer.pm        |  4 ++++
 src/PVE/VZDump/QemuServer.pm |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


storage:

Fiona Ebner (1):
  pbs plugin: raw client command: properly encode PBS password as UTF-8
    when setting the environment variable

 src/PVE/Storage/PBSPlugin.pm | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


common:

Fiona Ebner (1):
  pbs client: allow using password that would be auto-encoded as neither
    ASCII nor UTF-8

 src/PVE/PBSClient.pm | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


Summary over all repositories:
  5 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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