autokey-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in compare(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)

[Federico Silva]

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ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: autokey-gtk 0.90.1-1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-17.27-generic 3.8.6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Apr 9 21:18:22 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/autokey-gtk
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-09 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/autokey-gtk
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/autokey-gtk']
SourcePackage: autokey
Title: autokey-gtk crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in compare(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autokey/gtkui/configwindow.py", line 1663, in compare
     return cmp(str(item1), str(item2))
 UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-09 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Thomas (tux12345)]

This issue is very likely fixed in 0.95.9, which is part of Ubuntu 20.04.

This is a text encoding issue, which is gone by the port of AutoKey to Python 3.
The Python 3 version handles non-ASCII characters better than the Python2-based version 0.90.4

If this still happens, please raise an issue at https://github.com/autokey/autokey/issues