Snippets plugin Multibyte Error

[smeghead]

if it exists that snippets plugin entry contains Multibyte string, failed to start glipper.
Error message is below.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./scripts/glipper", line 43, in <module>
    glipper.AppIndicator.AppIndicator()
  File "/home/smeghead/Dropbox/work/glipper-snippets-multibyte/glipper/glipper/AppIndicator.py", line 53, in __init__
    get_glipper_plugins_manager().load()
  File "/home/smeghead/Dropbox/work/glipper-snippets-multibyte/glipper/glipper/PluginsManager.py", line 48, in load
    self.start(file_name)
  File "/home/smeghead/Dropbox/work/glipper-snippets-multibyte/glipper/glipper/PluginsManager.py", line 56, in start
    plugin.call('init')
  File "/home/smeghead/Dropbox/work/glipper-snippets-multibyte/glipper/glipper/Plugin.py", line 31, in call
    return apply(func, args)
  File "/home/smeghead/Dropbox/work/glipper-snippets-multibyte/glipper/glipper/plugins/snippets.py", line 118, in init
    update_menu()
  File "/home/smeghead/Dropbox/work/glipper-snippets-multibyte/glipper/glipper/plugins/snippets.py", line 133, in update_menu
    item = gtk.MenuItem(glipper.format_item(snippet))
  File "/home/smeghead/Dropbox/work/glipper-snippets-multibyte/glipper/glipper/__init__.py", line 127, in format_item
    return glipper.AppIndicator.format_item(item)
  File "/home/smeghead/Dropbox/work/glipper-snippets-multibyte/glipper/glipper/AppIndicator.py", line 189, in format_item
    return i[0:max_item_length/2] + u'\u2026' + i[-(max_item_length/2-3):]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 15-16: unexpected end of data

The attachment file is a patch of my solution.