software-center crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xab' in position 113: ordinal not in range(128)

[joshg]

Doesn't allow me to isntall ad external deb package (this http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/brscan2-0.2.5-1.i386.deb ).
When I click "install" a progress bar appears but then there's no "installed" label

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.22
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 10 09:19:35 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110904)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center /tmp/brscan2-0.2.5-1.i386.deb
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', '/tmp/brscan2-0.2.5-1.i386.deb']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xab' in position 113: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[joshg (joshg)]

no problem with gdebi.

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