dogtail-devel [Bug 320561] New: unable to execute dogtail in CJK locale

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 dogtail | Framework | Ver: CVS HEAD

           Summary: unable to execute dogtail in CJK locale
           Product: dogtail
           Version: CVS HEAD
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: Framework
        AssignedTo: dogtail-maint gnome bugs
        ReportedBy: llim redhat com
         QAContact: dogtail-maint gnome bugs
                CC: all-bugs bugzilla gnome org


Please describe the problem:
Seems dogtail is unable to support chars outside ASCII range, as a result,
dogtail cannot be execute properly in CJK locale.

Steps to reproduce:
1. evolution --force-shutdown
2. LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 evolution &
3. LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 python evolution-test-switching-components.py


Actual results:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/gettext.py", line 517, in dgettext
    codeset=_localecodesets.get(domain))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/gettext.py", line 465, in translation
    t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb')))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/gettext.py", line 177, in __init__
    self._parse(fp)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/gettext.py", line 324, in _parse
    tmsg = unicode(tmsg, self._charset)
LookupError: unknown encoding: CHARSET

Expected results:
See screenshots

Does this happen every time?
YES

Other information:
Created a patch to workaround the issue. Hope it helps.

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