Bug 2010676

Summary:	Escape sequence is printed instead of a non-breaking space in the Size column
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Viktor Ashirov <vashirov>
Component:	microdnf	Assignee:	Jaroslav Rohel <jrohel>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	35	CC:	daniel.mach, igor.raits, jrohel, pkratoch, rpm-software-management
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Description Viktor Ashirov 2021-10-05 10:36:32 UTC

Description of problem:

When microdnf is running in fedora-minimal container, that has POSIX locale by default, an escape sequence is printed instead of a non-breaking space in the Size column.
microdnf uses g_format_size(), that inserts non-breakable space.
From https://docs.gtk.org/glib/func.format_size.html
> The returned string is UTF-8, and may use a non-breaking space to separate the number and units, to ensure they aren’t separated when line wrapped.

If I change the locale to C.utf8 in the container, it works as expected.
Given that microdnf main purpose is to run in containers, specifically in fedora-minimal that defaults to POSIX locale, it would be good to produce human readable output by default.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
microdnf-3.8.0-2.fc35.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
1. podman run -ti fedora-minimal:35 
2. microdnf install vim

Actual results:
$ podman run -ti fedora-minimal:35 
bash-5.1# microdnf install vim 
Downloading metadata...
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Package                                                                    Repository                   Size
Installing:                                                                                                 
 gpm-libs-1.20.7-28.fc35.x86_64                                            fedora               20.5\xc2\xa0kB
 libsodium-1.0.18-8.fc35.x86_64                                            fedora               164.7\xc2\xa0kB
 vim-common-2:8.2.3404-1.fc35.x86_64                                       fedora               7.0\xc2\xa0MB
 vim-enhanced-2:8.2.3404-1.fc35.x86_64                                     fedora               1.9\xc2\xa0MB
 vim-filesystem-2:8.2.3404-1.fc35.noarch                                   fedora               22.4\xc2\xa0kB
 which-2.21-27.fc35.x86_64                                                 fedora               42.2\xc2\xa0kB
Transaction Summary:
 Installing:        6 packages
 Reinstalling:      0 packages
 Upgrading:         0 packages
 Obsoleting:        0 packages
 Removing:          0 packages
 Downgrading:       0 packages
Is this ok [y/N]: 

Expected results:
Size column should be human-readable.

Comment 1 Jaroslav Rohel 2021-10-21 13:25:57 UTC

I prepared a fix that will replace unbreakable spaces with simple spaces.
PR https://github.com/rpm-software-management/microdnf/pull/118

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2022-03-14 13:07:10 UTC

FEDORA-2022-e119fcc7d5 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 37. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-e119fcc7d5

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2022-03-14 13:09:39 UTC

FEDORA-2022-e119fcc7d5 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.