def _is_encodable(value: str) -> bool:
    """
    We need to filter out environment variables that can't
    be unicode-encoded to avoid a "surrogates not allowed"
    error in jsonnet.
    """
    # Idiomatically you'd like to not check the != b""
    # but mypy doesn't like that.
    return (value == "") or (value.encode("utf-8", "ignore") != b"")