commit bb7b37be27df1dbe4466ed62dbf0fdcf9ff0a659
Author: James Antill <james@and.org>
Date:   Fri Apr 3 10:14:13 2009 -0400

    Port the "turn i18n off" patch

diff --git a/yum/i18n.py b/yum/i18n.py
index 24c9825..9f2d5a9 100755
--- a/yum/i18n.py
+++ b/yum/i18n.py
@@ -450,8 +450,14 @@ def to_str(obj):
         obj = str(obj)
     return obj
 
-
-try: 
+if True:
+  # Python-2.* sucks for i18n/UnicodeErrors ... so we turn it off. We've
+  # got most of the major stuff beaten in Fedora, so if you really want it
+  # change the above to False and have fun (just don't log bugs).
+  _ = dummy_wrapper
+  P_ = dummyP_wrapper
+else:
+  try:
     '''
     Setup the yum translation domain and make _() and P_() translation wrappers
     available.
@@ -461,7 +467,7 @@ try:
     t = gettext.translation('yum', fallback=True)
     _ = t.ugettext
     P_ = t.nugettext
-except:
+  except:
     '''
     Something went wrong so we make a dummy _() wrapper there is just
     returning the same text