[Pkg-freeipa-devel] Bug#886980: babylon problem with "ipa help topics"

[Harald Dunkel]

Package: freeipa-admintools
Version: 4.4.4-1

"ipa help topics" moans about some internal weirdness:

# ipa help topics
ipa: ERROR: non-public: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 26: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ipalib/backend.py", line 137, in execute
     result = self.Command[_name](*args, **options)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ipalib/frontend.py", line 449, in __call__
     return self.__do_call(*args, **options)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ipalib/frontend.py", line 477, in __do_call
     ret = self.run(*args, **options)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ipalib/cli.py", line 782, in run
     self.print_topics(outfile)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ipalib/cli.py", line 819, in print_topics
     writer('%s  %s' % (to_cli(t).ljust(self._mtl), topic[0]))
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ipalib/cli.py", line 810, in writer
     print(unicode(string), file=outfile)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 26: ordinal not in range(128)
ipa: ERROR: an internal error has occurred

# env|sort
DISPLAY=:0
HOME=/root
LOGNAME=root
MAIL=/var/mail/root
OLDPWD=/root
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
PWD=/root
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHLVL=1
TERM=xterm
USER=root
_=/usr/bin/env

# locale
LANG=
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

# locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
POSIX
de_DE
de_DE.iso88591
de_DE.iso885915 at euro
de_DE.utf8
de_DE at euro
deutsch
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.iso885915
en_US.utf8
german


Regards
Harri