Fixes # .

Summary/Motivation:

Trying to run the couenne solver executable through Pyomo throws an error. Pyomo tries to check the version of the executable specified to verify that the solver can be run. In couenne's case, running couenne -v returns couenne (Microsoft cl 15.00.21022.08 für 80x86), ASL(20100130), except the ü runs into a problem with default encoding / utf-8 and cannot be decoded. This throws an error in the subprocess call which is not caught and so the solver cannot be run. Note that this problem is not necessarily couenne specific, but rather due to subprocess expecting the data in a text format where special characters like ü could not be recognised.

To reproduce, for example:

from pyomo.environ import *

model = ConcreteModel()

model.x = Var(initialize=0, bounds=(0, 10))
model.obj = Objective(expr=model.x, sense=maximize)  # maximize x -> x=10

# solve the model
solver = SolverFactory("couenne")
solver.solve(model)  # throws an error: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 38: invalid start byte

Changes proposed in this PR:

• Add errors='ignore' to the ASL solver version check subprocess call. This will ignore any errors while trying to decode the data received from the -v command (ie. errors arising from special characters, unexpected bytes, etc). After all, Pyomo does not care about the value of the solver version; the version check appears to only verify the solver exists before attempting to solve - See opt/base/solvers.py and solvers/plugins/solvers/ASL.py for more details. You can also read about the errors argument to subprocess here: https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/io.html#io.TextIOWrapper

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