Comment 1 for bug 1444805

Further info. I read that maybe this is a problem with the default locale encoding used in Ubuntu and in Python 3 (when reading a file)
Here is my ~/.pam_environment file just in case then:

LANGUAGE=en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
PAPERSIZE=letter