[packagekit] Unicode error with the yum backend

[Tim Lauridsen]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> Guys, a new error:
> 
> [hughsie at hughsie-laptop PackageKit]$ pkcon resolve ipw2100-firmware
>     [.........===...........................................................................................................................]                
> Error: internal-error : Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>
> Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae' in position 76: ordinal not in range(128)
>   File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/resolve.py , line 18, in <module>
>     backend.resolve(filters, name)
>   File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py , line 713, in resolve
>     self._show_package(pkg,INFO_INSTALLED)
>   File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py , line 989, in _show_package
>     self.package(id,status, pkg.summary)
>   File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py , line 253, in package
>     PackageKitBaseBackend.package(self,id,status,summary)
>   File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py , line 87, in package
>     print >> sys.stdout,"package\tstderr from %p = '%s'\t?>     \terror        internal-error  Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>;Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae' in position 76: ordinal not in range(128);  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/resolve
> resolve runtime was 0.9 seconds
> 
> Ideas welcome on how to fix this, I'm stuck.
> 
> Richard.
> 
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Strange, cant reproduce the error on Fedora 8.

[tim at deathstar ~]$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

[tim at hoth helpers]$ sudo ./resolve.py none ipw2100-firmware
allow-cancel	true
no-percentage-updates
status	query
package	installed	ipw2100-firmware;1.3-8;noarch;installed	Firmware for 
Intel® PRO/Wireless 2100 network adaptors

Tim