Description of problem:

[notting@nostromo: ~/prog/anaconda]$ LANG=fa_IR ./anaconda --test --method
nfs://curly.devel.redhat.com/vol/engineering/devarchive/redhat/nightly/rawhide-latest/development/i386/os/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./anaconda", line 588, in ?
    import signal, traceback, string, isys, iutil, time
  File "isys/isys.py", line 26, in ?
    import iutil
  File "/home/notting/prog/anaconda/iutil.py", line 21, in ?
    from flags import flags
  File "/home/notting/prog/anaconda/flags.py", line 16, in ?
    from constants import *
  File "/home/notting/prog/anaconda/constants.py", line 51, in ?
    from pykickstart.constants import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pykickstart/__init__.py", line 3, in ?
    import parser
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pykickstart/parser.py", line 29, in ?
    translate.textdomain("pykickstart")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhpl/translate.py", line 220, in textdomain
    cat.setDomain(domain)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhpl/translate.py", line 106, in setDomain
    self.updateCachedCatPaths()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhpl/translate.py", line 140, in
updateCachedCatPaths
    catalog = gettext.GNUTranslations(mofile)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 177, in __init__
    self._parse(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 324, in _parse
    tmsg = unicode(tmsg, self._charset)
LookupError: unknown encoding: CHARSET

This is due to the fa pykickstart translation having 'charset=CHARSET' in it.
Various other pykickstart translations are similar.

No, I don't know why this doesn't crash in non-test mode.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

pykickstart-0.35-1

How reproducible:

Every time.