[lubuntu-devel] LANG=C; ubuntu-support-status --show-unsupported fails from non-English language

[Nio Wiklund]

Hi,

I have found Bug #1556399. I seems to be caused by ubuntu-support-status 
which belongs to update-manager-core, but maybe it is a Lubuntu bug.

The live system is using Swedish. I try to get the output in English, so 
I used LANG=C.

lubuntu at lubuntu:~$ ubuntu-support-status --show-unsupported
Sammandrag av supportstatus för ”lubuntu”:

Du har 1061 paket (85.8%) som stöds till March 2021 (5y)
Du har 171 paket (13.8%) som stöds till March 2019 (3y)
Du har 3 paket (0.2%) som stöds till December 2016 (9m)

Du har 0 paket (0.0%) som inte (längre) kan hämtas
Du har 1 paket (0.1%) som inte stöds

Inte längre möjliga att hämta:

Stöds inte:
aspell-sv

lubuntu at lubuntu:~$ LANG=C
lubuntu at lubuntu:~$ ubuntu-support-status --show-unsupported
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/ubuntu-support-status", line 145, in <module>
     print(_("Support status summary of '%s':") % os.uname()[1])
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xf6' in 
position 29: ordinal not in range(128)


*This is why I suspect that it may be a Lubuntu bug*

See the bug report's comment #2:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1556399

This bug affects systems originally booted in English, where Swedish was 
installed/set via the Lubuntu menu 'Preferences - Language Support'. 
This is the [only] way to do it when booting from grub, and a possible 
way to do it when booting from syslinux.

I put Swedish at the top of the list (of installed languages), applied 
system-wide, logged out and logged in again as the user lubuntu.

It is also affecting my installed xenial system, which I am running in 
Swedish.

-o-

But when I set the Swedish language via the first menu of syslinux boot, 
the live can to get English output via

LANG=C; ubuntu-support-status --show-unsupported

Maybe it is not a bug of 'update-manager' but a bug of the Lubuntu 
package for language support.

Best regards
Nio