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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 846044 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/846044

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** This bug has been marked a duplicate of private bug 846044

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Title:
  software-center crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message():
  'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xab' in position 113: ordinal
  not in range(128)

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Doesn't allow me to isntall ad external deb package (this http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/brscan2-0.2.5-1.i386.deb ).
  When I click "install" a progress bar appears but then there's no "installed" label

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 4.1.22
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Sep 10 09:19:35 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110904)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center /tmp/brscan2-0.2.5-1.i386.deb
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', '/tmp/brscan2-0.2.5-1.i386.deb']
  SourcePackage: software-center
  Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xab' in position 113: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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