Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 501184
Header misalignment with multibyte characters
Last modified: 2010-04-09 04:08:25 EDT
Description of problem: The header linse of e.g. "semanage user -l" gets misaligned if the translated headers contain UTF-8 multibyte characters. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): policycoreutils-2.0.57-11.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. env LANG=sv_SE.utf8 semanage user -l Actual results: Märkning MLS/ MLS/ SELinux-anv. Prefix MCS-nivå MCS-intervall SELinux-roller guest_u user s0 s0 guest_r root user s0 SystemLow-SystemHigh staff_r sysadm_r system_r unconfined_r staff_u user s0 SystemLow-SystemHigh staff_r sysadm_r system_r sysadm_u user s0 SystemLow-SystemHigh sysadm_r system_u user s0 SystemLow-SystemHigh system_r unconfined_u unconfined s0 SystemLow-SystemHigh system_r unconfined_r user_u user s0 s0 user_r xguest_u user s0 s0 xguest_r I hope bugzilla won't mangle the formatting. The point here is that "MLS/" is one space to the left of where it should be. Likewise with "MCS-intervall" and "SELinux-roller". Presumably because of the "ä" in "Märkning" and the "å" in "MLS-nivå". Additional information: This is shown using a po file I just uploaded where "SELinux-anv." is abbreviated as shown above. Before it was spelled out "SELinux-användare", which made the header overflow. It was when I corrected the overflow in the translation I noticed this other problem.
Any idea how to fix this?
I didn't have any. But I took help from some friends/colleagues who know Python much better than I do. With their advice, and a bit of experimentation, I came up with this fix. Having applied it, the output looks fine in both sv_SE.utf8 (an UTF-8 locale) and in sv_SE (a Latin-1 locale). --- /usr/sbin/semanage.orig 2009-06-12 22:24:31.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/sbin/semanage 2009-11-03 16:14:10.000000000 +0100 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ try: gettext.install(PROGNAME, localedir="/usr/share/locale", - unicode=False, + unicode=True, codeset = 'utf-8') except IOError: import __builtin__ (Well, it WILL look nice after I fixed the translation. The current version translates "SELinux User" with "SELinux-användare" which doesn't fit in the 15 positions available. But I will change that to an abbreviation.)
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Remains in policycoreutils-2.0.74-17.fc12.x86_64. And my little patch from comment 2 still works for me.
Fixed in policycoreutils-2.0.77-1.fc12
Does indeed work now. (Tested with 2.0.79.)