software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __str__(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)

[Michael Terry]

I get this with the gtk3 version (I do *not* get it in the gtk2 version) when clicking on 'More Info' for "Déjà Dup Backup Tool'.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 9 11:39:40 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center-gtk3
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110422)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center-gtk3
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center-gtk3']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __str__(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-27 (13 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers

[Matthew McGowan (mmcg069)]

Hopefully this is now fixed in trunk.

[Kiwinote (kiwinote)]

software-center (4.1.15) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * software-center-gtk3, software-center:
    - fix PYTHONPATH when running from a local repo
    - add "--dummy-backend" option start will start a fake
      aptdaemon in a private dbus for interactive testing of the
      installation/removal
  * softwarecenter/backend/spawn_helper.py:
    - make "--debug-filter softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper"
      more useful
    - ensure that the io source is removed after any pending
      reads are flushed
  * software-center:
    - fix startup with no PYTHONPATH
  * softwarecenter/gmenusearch.py:
    - port to use gir1.2-gmenu-3.0
  * softwarecenter/ui/{gtk,gtk3}/views/appdetailsview_gtk.py:
    - updated for gir1.2-gmenu-3.0
  * softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/exhibits.py:
    - show hand cursor if the exhibit has package_names
  * setup.py:
    - fix AUTHORS file merging

  [ Matthew McGowan ]
  * lp:~mmcg069/software-center/appdetails-tweaks:
    - add a pretty frame around the thumbnail in the detailsview.
  * lp:~mmcg069/software-center/bugfix-823233:
    - fix so that markup is actually rendered by the submit_label
      when submitting usefulness (LP: #823233)
  * fix the annoying ascii codec error, #823363 <--
  * add some checks to ensure the exhibits list contains exhibits and
    then some further checks within _render_exhbit_at_cursor to ensure
    the cursor is within the bounds of the exhibits_list

  [ Kiwinote ]
  * data/ui/gtk3/SoftwareCenter.ui,
    softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/app.py:
    - few more tweaks to the about dialog
  * softwarecenter/db/application.py:
    - import version_compare on demand to make deb files work (LP: #824692)
  * softwarecenter/ui/gtk/appview.py,
    softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/cellrenderers.py:
    - fix listviews in rtl setups (pango reverses LEFT and RIGHT itself)
  * softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/app.py:
    - fix rtl mode for testing
  * softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/views/appdetailsview_gtk.py:
    - correctly show/hide website button

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:21:25 +0200