Bug 767313

Summary: textwrap is not mutltibyte aware breaks optparse with i18n help strings
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Adrian Likins <alikins>
Component: pythonAssignee: Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Description Adrian Likins 2011-12-13 18:59:42 UTC 
Description of problem:
bz #752316 describes a bug in subscription-manager where translated help
messages that are displayed via optparse can break because optparse using
the "textwrap" module to wrap text, and it is not multibyte aware


sample code to reproduce directly with textwrap:



>>> import textwrap
>>> a = "このシステム用に権利があるレポジトリの一覧表示"
>>> print textwrap.fill(a, 40)
このシステム用に権利がある
��ポジトリの一覧表示
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2013-03-21 05:07:13 UTC 
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