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[Dennis Schridde <1368911@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quick fix:
--- /usr/share/apport/apport.orig       2014-09-12 23:11:15.067594994 +0400
+++ /usr/share/apport/apport    2014-09-12 23:10:12.631595210 +0400
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
 def error_log(msg):
     '''Output something to the error log.'''
 
-    apport.error('apport (pid %s) %s: %s', os.getpid(), time.asctime(), msg)
+    apport.error('apport (pid %s) %s: %s', os.getpid(), time.asctime(), msg.encode("utf-8"))
 
 
 def _log_signal_handler(sgn, frame):

But a better place to fix this would probably be apport.error().

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Title:
  Apport crashes when writing to stderr: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii'
  codec can't encode character '\xc1' in position 130: ordinal not in
  range(128)

Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Apport is invoked by the kernel via /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern and
  crashes when writing some message to stderr:

  ERROR: ERROR: apport (pid 23175) Fri Sep 12 22:51:58 2014: Unhandled exception:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 367, in <module>
      (info['ExecutablePath'], info['ProcCmdline']))
    File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 99, in error_log
      apport.error('apport (pid %s) %s: %s', os.getpid(), time.asctime(), msg)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 44, in error
      sys.stderr.write(msg % args)
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xc1' in position 130: ordinal not in range(128)
  ERROR: apport (pid 23175) Fri Sep 12 22:51:58 2014: pid: 23175, uid: 1000, gid: 1000, euid: 0, egid: 0
  ERROR: apport (pid 23175) Fri Sep 12 22:51:58 2014: environment: environ({})

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: apport 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Fri Sep 12 22:57:13 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-20 (115 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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