Errors when reporting sound issues

[Roger Binns]

When trying to report a bug with audio input from my webcam apport-bug crashes halfway through giving a python stack trace as shown below. Best guess is that the device reports itself as a "Microsoft® LifeCam Cinema(TM)" and the unicode tm symbol isn't handled by the apport code.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 368, in <module>
    app.run_argv()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 568, in run_argv
    return self.run_report_bug()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 329, in run_report_bug
    if self.run_symptoms():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 541, in run_symptoms
    self.run_report_bug(os.path.join(symptom_script_dir, symptom + '.py'))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 375, in run_report_bug
    self.collect_info(symptom_script)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 812, in collect_info
    hookui.process_event()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 1362, in process_event
    self._response = getattr(self.ui, self._request_fn)(*self._request_args)
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 277, in ui_question_yesno
    Gtk.ButtonsType.YES_NO)
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 209, in _ui_message_dialog
    md.set_property('text', text.encode('UTF-8'))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 108: ordinal not in range(128)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: apport 1.23-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportLog:
 ERROR: apport (pid 20665) Wed Oct 5 22:09:15 2011: called for pid 18860, signal 11
 ERROR: apport (pid 20665) Wed Oct 5 22:09:15 2011: executable: /usr/bin/totem (command line "totem /tmp/tmpRgd7nG.pls")
 ERROR: apport (pid 20665) Wed Oct 5 22:09:23 2011: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_bin_totem.1000.crash
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 6 00:04:00 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)