Exported: https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/243986
Reason for Export:  Review Issue. Unicode/ascii issue. Can this be fixed?

The problem is that the package executes a command that returns UNICODE text.
The terminal is ready to accept it but not smart

Here is a package with problems in smart

I still got Unicode errors. Can't smart just remove the strange characters and
retry the operation? It will miss a character but not the operation.

smart 0.50 from suse guru package

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/smart/interfaces/gtk/interactive.py",
line 180, in callback
    exec code in globals

  File "<callback>", line 1, in <module>

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/smart/interfaces/gtk/interactive.py",
line 424, in applyChanges
    if self._ctrl.commitTransaction(transaction, confirm=confirm):

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 502, in
commitTransaction
    return self.commitChangeSet(trans.getChangeSet(), caching, confirm)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 560, in
commitChangeSet
    pmclass().commit(pmcs, pkgpaths)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/pm.py", line 270,
in commit
    probs = ts.run(cb, None)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/pm.py", line 338,
in __call__
    self._process_rpmout()

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/pm.py", line 323,
in _process_rpmout
    output = self.rpmout.read()

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/codecs.py", line 418, in read
    newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in position 18: ordinal
not in range(128)

Is this still an issue? I can not reproduce on ubuntu 6.10.  Does python handle
Unicode better now?  Ubuntu 6.10 runs python 2.4.

Dave

Can you please try the latest svn version of smart? It should fix some encoding
issues.

Cheers,
 Michael

I have create a channel with smart --gui, where the description contains a umluat.

When I enter smart channel --show I will ge the following traceback:

[pclinux@myhome ~]$ smart channel --show
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 194, in ?
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 167, in main
    exitcode = iface.run(opts.command, opts.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/interface.py", line 53, in run
    result = _command.main(self._ctrl, opts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/commands/channel.py", line 305,
in main
    print desc
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/codecs.py", line 178, in write
    data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 40: ordinal
not in range(128)
[pclinux@myhome ~]$      

User version:0.41

User Distribution: Fedora Core Linux 4