mirage crashes with non-ASCII file names (Ubuntu 10.04)

[Ulli Horlacher]

mirage crashes when it tries to read a file with non-ASCII file names
(like German Umlauts):

framstag@diaspora:/tmp: mirage xöx.jpg
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mirage.py:32: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import tempfile, socket, md5, threading
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/mirage", line 30, in <module>
    app = mirage.Base()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mirage.py", line 733, in __init__
    self.expand_filelist_and_load_image(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mirage.py", line 4233, in expand_filelist_and_load_image
    self.update_title()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mirage.py", line 4390, in update_title
    title = "Mirage - [" + str(self.curr_img_in_list+1) + ' ' + _('of') + ' ' + str(len(self.image_list)) + "] " + os.path.basename(self.currimg_name)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-4: invalid data

framstag@diaspora:/tmp: lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04

framstag@diaspora:/tmp: apt-cache policy mirage
mirage:
  Installed: 0.9.3-5ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.9.3-5ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.3-5ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

framstag@diaspora:/tmp: ls -l xöx.jpg
-rw-r----- 1 framstag users 53155 2012-05-31 14:45 xöx.jpg

framstag@diaspora:/tmp: ls xöx.jpg | hexdump
 00000000:78 F6 78 2E 6A 70 67 0A
        0:x ö x . j p g \n

framstag@diaspora:/tmp: locale
LANG=en_US.iso885915
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.iso885915"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.iso885915"
LC_TIME="en_US.iso885915"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.iso885915"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.iso885915"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.iso885915"
LC_PAPER="en_US.iso885915"
LC_NAME="en_US.iso885915"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.iso885915"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.iso885915"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.iso885915"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.iso885915"
LC_ALL=

framstag@diaspora:/tmp: set | grep ^G_
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=en_US.iso885915
G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale

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[Ulli Horlacher (framstag)]

filed it wrong first (forgot package selection)