https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882063 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882063#c0 Summary: encoding issues with SLED12 repository metadata Classification: Internal Novell Products Product: openSUSE Build Service Version: 2.5 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: General AssignedTo: adrian@suse.com ReportedBy: bgeuken@suse.com QAContact: adrian@suse.com CC: jmassaguerpla@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- As Jordi figured out there seems to be a difference between 13.1 and SLED12 metadata files, and other repo sources might be affected as well. While 13.1 files are encoded as utf-8, the newer SLED12 files are ISO-8859-1. You can check this by unpacking those 2 files, doing a binary read on both and grep for Adobe Reader: http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss/suse/setu... http://dist.suse.de/install/SLP/SLE-12-Desktop-LATEST/x86_64/DVD1/suse/setup... File.binread("packages.en.131")[/cluding Adobe Rea.*Adobe Reader/] => "cluding Adobe Reader\xC2\xAE (\xE2\x80\x9CAdobe Reader" File.binread("packages.en.sle12")[/cluding Adobe Rea.*Adobe Reader/] => "cluding Adobe Reader\xAE (\"Adobe Reader" This causes the Studio downloader backend to break. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.