'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe4' in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)

[David Henningsson]

Trying to start usb-creator with this command: "LC_ALL=C usb-creator-gtk" fails with the following error message:

An unhandled exception occurred:
'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe4' in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.54
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-14.34-generic 3.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Mar 7 12:54:28 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-04 (123 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20131103)
SourcePackage: usb-creator
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1266731

[Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom)]

I'm starting to think that noone cares about usb-creator anymore.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom)]

And one more https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1264400

[Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom)]

Actually I'm a bit misunderstood your bugreport and thought it's about old problem with ISO in non-latin directory.

As I understand you tried LC_ALL=C because of this. It shouldn't work and it's OK since it can't read localized Downloads and Desktop directories.

[Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom)]

But it should work with en_EN.UTF-8 while it doesn't, so it's encoding problems anyway.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "usb-creator-fix.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom)]

While I was trying to investigate this bug I've realized that there's no locale "en_EN.UTF-8" and it was doing fallback to "C".

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 works without problems (with patch from bug #1289314).

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

It prevents the package (or a dependent one) from functioning correctly at all.