UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 394: ordinal not in range(128)

[Antonis Sidiropoulos]

Sometimes (probably it depends from the weather)
my-weather-indicator crashes.
Running it from command line I get the messages:
<gettext.GNUTranslations instance at 0xb51262ac>
No LSB modules are available.
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Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Version: i686
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My-Weather-Indicator version: 0.6.3
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('/home/asidirop/.config/my-weather-indicator/my-weather-indicator.conf', True)
{"sunrise":"2014-11-27 07:27","lng":22.9594444,"countryCode":"GR","gmtOffset":2,"rawOffset":2,"sunset":"2014-11-27 17:03","timezoneId":"Europe/Athens","dstOffset":3,"countryName":"Greece","time":"2014-11-27 09:44","lat":40.6405556}
{"sunrise":"2014-11-27 07:28","lng":22.510520935059233,"countryCode":"GR","gmtOffset":2,"rawOffset":2,"sunset":"2014-11-27 17:06","timezoneId":"Europe/Athens","dstOffset":3,"countryName":"Greece","time":"2014-11-27 09:44","lat":40.268809791460896}
Timezone Error unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'unicode' and 'float'
North
(<type 'str'>, u'9 \xb0C')
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/my-weather-indicator/bin/my-weather-indicator", line 45, in <module>
    mwi=MWI()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/my-weather-indicator/share/my-weather-indicator/myweatherindicator.py", line 134, in __init__
    self.load_preferences()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/my-weather-indicator/share/my-weather-indicator/myweatherindicator.py", line 361, in load_preferences
    self.work()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/my-weather-indicator/share/my-weather-indicator/myweatherindicator.py", line 199, in work
    self.set_menu2()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/my-weather-indicator/share/my-weather-indicator/myweatherindicator.py", line 543, in set_menu2
    weather = self.weatherservice2.get_weather()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/my-weather-indicator/share/my-weather-indicator/wundergroundapi.py", line 146, in get_weather
    weather_data = self._get_weather()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/my-weather-indicator/share/my-weather-indicator/wundergroundapi.py", line 81, in _get_weather
    parsed_json = json.loads(json_string.decode())
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 394: ordinal not in range(128)

[Andy Russell (icarusr)]

Also will not start for me, get same error, though from a different line.
Terminal output ....

andy@Zebedee:~$ /usr/bin/python /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/my-weather-indicator/bin/my-weather-indicator
<gettext.GNUTranslations instance at 0xb5e6c3cc>
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System: Linux
Machine: i686
Node: Zebedee
Release: 3.13.0-48-generic
Version: #80-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 12 11:16:18 UTC 2015
Platform: Linux-3.13.0-48-generic-i686-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
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My-Weather-Indicator version: 0.6.9-0extras14.04.2
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('/home/andy/.config/my-weather-indicator/my-weather-indicator.conf', True)
****** Requesting timezone identificacion
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time.time() = 1427657032
self.actualization_time = 0
(time.time()-self.actualization_time) = 1427657032
self.refresh*3600 = 1800
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--- Updating data in location 1 ---
****** Updating weather
****** Calculating rawOffset
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06:45 << 20:23 << 19:31
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OpenWeatherMap Weather Service url:http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=52.0368911630209&lon=-0.8047341231537324
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****** Updated weather
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/my-weather-indicator/bin/my-weather-indicator", line 50, in <module>
    mwi=MWI()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/my-weather-indicator/share/my-weather-indicator/myweatherindicator.py", line 135, in __init__
    self.load_preferences()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/my-weather-indicator/share/my-weather-indicator/myweatherindicator.py", line 376, in load_preferences
    self.work()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/my-weather-indicator/share/my-weather-indicator/myweatherindicator.py", line 200, in work
    self.set_menu()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/my-weather-indicator/share/my-weather-indicator/myweatherindicator.py", line 524, in set_menu
    self.menu_temperature.set_label(_('Temperature')+': {0}{1:c}'.format(self.current_conditions['temperature'],176))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)