Bug 712359

Summary:	Error messages displayed incorrectly in locales where the translation is missing
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Ondrej Hudlicky <ohudlick>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satellite-qa-list>
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Version:	5.7
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Description Ondrej Hudlicky 2011-06-10 08:34:38 EDT

Description of problem:
Error messages displayed incorrectly in locales where the translation is missing = all except following list: $ rpm -ql yum | grep locale
Tested cs_CZ.UTF-8 ja_JP.UTF-8 (bug) de_DE.UTF-8 (localized, displays correctly)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.2.22-35.el5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. setup e.g. incorrect yum repo
2. $ export LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8
3. invoke error message: $ yum search foo
  
Actual results:
$ LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 yum search foo
repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Nezn\xc3\xa1m\xc3\xa9 jm\xc3\xa9no nebo slu\xc5\xbeba')>
Trying other mirror.

$ LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 yum search foo
repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, '\xe5\x90\x8d\xe5\x89\x8d\xe3\x81\xbe\xe3\x81\x9f\xe3\x81\xaf\xe3\x82\xb5\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x83\x93\xe3\x82\xb9\xe3\x81\x8c\xe4\xb8\x8d\xe6\x98\x8e\xe3\x81\xa7\xe3\x81\x99')>

Expected results:
Error message for these locales displayed correctly in English:
repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>

Additional info:

Comment 1 James Antill 2011-08-25 17:11:31 EDT

 This sucks, but it's probably a bad idea to try and fix it at this point in RHEL-5 ... esp. as we ignore the LANG anyway in RHEL/yum. I guess we could override the LANG environment to always be en_US.utf-8.

 The problem with fixing it is that it introduced more bugs upstream, due to the bad way python handles unicode, and backporting all the fixes will be hard and prone to error (mainly of missing some).

 There is an unsupported "RHEL-6 and rawhide rebuild" repo. for RHEL-5 (and Fedora's) on repos.fedorapeople.org ... so a customer can try that. Or move to RHEL-6 :).

Comment 2 RHEL Product and Program Management 2011-08-25 17:25:24 EDT

Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may appeal
this decision by reopening this request.