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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From the traceback, it looks like the package name contains a non-Ascii
character, but warning() assumes that it's Ascii. Perhaps someone could
supply a demo package with a non-Ascii name?

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Title:
  software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in warning():
  'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2: ordinal not in
  range(128)

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

Bug description:
  Installing packages

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 4.1.21
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Sep  8 21:51:08 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center-gtk3
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110903)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center-gtk3
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center-gtk3']
  SourcePackage: software-center
  Title: software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in warning(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2: 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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