software-center crashed with TypeError in normalize(): character mapping must return integer, None or unicode

[Victor]

error report window appeared in about 20 seconds after session start without starting softw~.

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 20:19:36 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110803.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with TypeError in normalize(): character mapping must return integer, None or unicode
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is actually a duplicate of
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptdaemon/+bug/825056

and fixed in the latest version of aptdaemon.