Comment 32 for bug 253452

@mac_v: You know how big the german userbase is? I can't imagine you really want to say that it's not a papercut-issue because it only affects the german users. Besides, like Jens Böning said, it isn't. As far as I can see, all the criteria are matched.
1. It's an unintended problem
2. It makes empathy unpleasant to use
3. It's easy to fix (see below)
4. The average european encounters it the first day, all others could do, necessary to trigger this is only a encoding-mismatch.
5. part of ubuntu-desktop and the default configuration.

@Sebastian Bacher: To fix this bug we don't have to autodetect the encoding. Simply surpressing the message would fix the issue.