Description of problem: Error messages in Japanese by yum are displayed in hexadecimal number Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.0-1.fc7 How reproducible: 100% (when error occurs and Japanese error messages are displayed) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try "yum check-update" several times 2. Sometimes one mirror yum tries to use is corrupted. 3. Actual results: [root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum --disablerepo=koji check-update <snip> http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/pub/Linux/fedora/core/development/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (101, '\xe3\x83\x8d\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x83\x88\xe3\x83\xaf\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x81\xab\xe5\xb1\x8a\xe3\x81\x8d\xe3\x81\xbe\xe3\x81\x9b\xe3\x82\x93')> Trying other mirror. development 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00 Expected results: In this case: IOError: <urlopen error (101, "ネットワークに届きません")> Trying other mirror. Additional info: In this case: [root@localhost yum.repos.d]# echo -e '\xe3\x83\x8d\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x83\x88\xe3\x83\xaf\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x81\xab\xe5\xb1\x8a\xe3\x81\x8d\xe3\x81\xbe\xe3\x81\x9b\xe3\x82\x93' ネットワークに届きません "ネットワークに届きません" is Japanese message meaning "unreachable to network".
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171664 ***