Failure messages display improperly on non-C languages

Bug #468615 reported by Jimhu
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
install-package (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Jonathan Thomas
Lucid
Fix Released
High
Jonathan Thomas

Bug Description

I am running Kubuntu 9.10.

When there was another apt backend running, I reloaded the package cache from software source. And of course, an error dialogue poped up, but the Chinese characters were unreadable.

Check out the attachment below.

Best Regards,
JimHu

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 2 05:51:08 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: software-properties-kde 0.75.4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=zh_CN:zh:en_US:en
 LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: software-properties
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

Revision history for this message
Jimhu (huyiwei) wrote :
fujianwzh (wzh)
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
amichair (amichai2) wrote :

This seems to bean i18n bug in install-package...

affects: software-properties (Ubuntu) → install-package (Ubuntu)
Changed in install-package (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in install-package (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.04
assignee: nobody → Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)
Changed in install-package (Ubuntu Lucid):
importance: Medium → High
summary: - Non-C languages don't display porperly when poping up the error dialogue
- as there is another apt backend running
+ Failure messages display improperly on non-C languages
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package install-package - 0.5.2

---------------
install-package (0.5.2) lucid; urgency=low

  * Specify that the LockFailedException is from the apt.cache library
    (LP: #546708)
  * Implement encoding wrappers to fix the encoding of exception error
    messages (LP: #468615)
 -- Jonathan Thomas <email address hidden> Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:55:05 -0400

Changed in install-package (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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