crystal-project crashes repoquery

[Curtis Doty]

Sunday Nicolas Mailhot said:

> Le dimanche 30 septembre 2007 à 12:18 -0700, Curtis Doty a écrit :
>
>> It's been most annoying due to its wholesale breakage of my favorite
>> "repoquery -qal |grep foo" without providing any helpful info.
>>
>> It appears the problem stems from some corrupt filenames in
>> crystal_project.tar.gz: crystal_project/*/apps/softwareD???.png Where
>> those three oddball 8-bit chars are 0xEF, 0x80 and 0x83.
>
> It's probably a repoquery bug ÿÿ our python tools are supposed to handle
> UTF-8 but this has not been impressed strongly enough on their writers
> at the right time. And current python is a mess on the unicode front, so
> software writers have to care about it for stuff to work.
>

Ok, I've opened bz#315491 against yum-utils.

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