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Bug 1655509 - Traceback when subscription manager when non-ascii passed as param.
Summary: Traceback when subscription manager when non-ascii passed as param.
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: subscription-manager
Version: 7.7-Alt
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: candlepin-bugs
QA Contact: Red Hat subscription-manager QE Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-12-03 10:37 UTC by Robin Hack
Modified: 2019-09-19 15:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-09-19 15:44:31 UTC
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Description Robin Hack 2018-12-03 10:37:59 UTC 
Description of problem:
When subscription manager is used with non-ascii character as CLI param, traceback is invoked.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
subscription-manager-1.21.10-3.el7_6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. subscription-manager repos –list (please that - before list is different character!)
2.
3.

Actual results:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/subscription-manager", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('subscription-manager==1.21.10', 'console_scripts', 'subscription-manager')()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/subscription_manager/scripts/subscription_manager.py", line 85, in main
    return managercli.ManagerCLI().main()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/subscription_manager/managercli.py", line 2667, in main
    ret = CLI.main(self)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/subscription_manager/cli.py", line 183, in main
    return cmd.main()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/subscription_manager/managercli.py", line 378, in main
    print(_("cannot parse argument: %s") % arg)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in position 23: ordinal not in range(128)

Expected results:
Something nice.

Additional info:
Comment 2 Chris Snyder 2019-09-19 15:44:31 UTC 
This requires change to the underlying libraries used for argument parsing that come from base python. Due to RHEL 7 being in Maintenance Support Phase 1, our team will not be able to fix this issue.
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