Bug 1089618

Summary:	ruby error: incompatible encodings utf-8 and ascii-8bit when installation using non-English language
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Forgotten User lcHrdxyPBb <forgotten_lcHrdxyPBb>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Current
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE Factory
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Description Forgotten User lcHrdxyPBb 2018-04-15 15:08:42 UTC

Overview: 
When installing openSUSE Tumbleweed using  Simplified Chinese, an error occured after choosing desktop enviroument, saying "incompatible encodings utf-8 and ascii-8bit".

Steps to Reproduce:
1). Use "openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Current.iso" when installing.
(sha256sum:bc4c42edd362bb790b89e3b6f723eb309fb2fa2d8039abf20bad1f6c48b2c5ab,Origin Name: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20180410-Media.iso)

2). Use "Simplified Chinese" as the default language to install.

3). Go directly to the next step after choosing the desktop environment like KDE, GNOME, etc.

Actual Results: The ruby reports its crash, saying "incompatible encodings utf-8 and ascii-8bit".

Expected Results: Go on to manage the disk partition. It behaves normally when using English.

Date: April 15th,2018

Additional Builds and Platforms: Whether or not the bug takes place on other platforms. The type of the computer is ASUS GL552.

Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2018-04-15 20:48:15 UTC

Should be a duplicate of bug #1088067.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1088067 ***