cannot install deb files when path contains utf-8 characters
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aptdaemon |
New
|
Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
aptdaemon (Ubuntu) |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
software-center (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
High
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
The following unhandled error occurs when trying to install a .deb file in Software Center:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
return self._simulate_
File "/usr/lib/
deb = apt.debfile.
File "/usr/lib/
self.
File "/usr/lib/
self._sections = apt_pkg.
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 646: ordinal not in range(128)
It's not only when installing Ubuntu Tweak. Dropbox also gives the same error.
Screenshot included.