--- wicd-1.7.2.4/wicd/misc.py	2012-05-01 05:20:09.000000000 +1000
+++ wicd-1.7.2.4/wicd/misc.py	2014-07-22 17:32:01.000000000 +1000
@@ -430,7 +430,9 @@
     """ Sanitize property names to be used in config-files. """
     allowed = string.ascii_letters + '_' + string.digits
     table = string.maketrans(allowed, ' ' * len(allowed))
-    return s.translate(None, table)
+    # s is a dbus.String -- since we don't allow unicode property keys,
+    # make it simple.
+    return str(unicode(s).encode('utf-8','replace')).translate(None, table)
 
 def sanitize_escaped(s):
     """ Sanitize double-escaped unicode strings. """