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[Bug 836981] Re: software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in position 89: ordinal not in range(128)

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From: Gary Lasker <gary.lasker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:09:50 -0000
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 846044 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/846044

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 834494
   software-center crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 29-37: ordinal not in range(128)
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 846044
   software-center crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 65: ordinal not in range(128)

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Title:
  software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in
  get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in
  position 89: ordinal not in range(128)

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

Bug description:
  installed an app that I think was already installed, but softare
  center said it wasn't so I installed it from there anyway, followed by
  this crash

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 4.1.20
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Aug 29 22:27:31 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center-gtk3
  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 UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in position 89: 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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