Description of problem: preupgrade-cli fails when upgrading from F12 to F13 with this error message : Total download size: 925.9MB Download packages? Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 327, in <module> pu.main(release) File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 265, in main if not self.userconfirm(): File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 647, in userconfirm choice = raw_input(_('Is this ok [y/N]: ')) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 20: ordinal not in range(128) But it works with LANG=C preupgrade-cli "Fedora 13" The problem certainly comes from the unicode string used in the French translation but not in the english text. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): preupgrade-1.1.7-1.fc12.noarch How reproducible: Always, with french (and possibly other languages using non-ascii chars), but never with english Additional info: $ locale LANG=fr_FR.utf8 LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.utf8" LC_TIME="fr_FR.utf8" LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.utf8" LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.utf8" LC_PAPER="fr_FR.utf8" LC_NAME="fr_FR.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.utf8" LC_ALL=
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