command-not-found crashed in advise with: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 45: ordinal not in range(128)

[David Henningsson]

On an up-to-date 12.04 installation, swedish language:

$ LC_ALL=C chuck
Sorry, command-not-found has crashed! Please file a bug report at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/command-not-found/+filebug
Please include the following information with the report:

command-not-found version: 0.2.44

(note: the command "chuck" is not currently installed)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: command-not-found 0.2.46ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-10.17-generic 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 24 09:33:11 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120103)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: command-not-found
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

I have a patch that will eventually address this problem but for the moment let me just state that C locale is broken by design and prevents python from working with UTF-8 (at all). Don't use it.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

Here is the error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/command-not-found", line 90, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/command-not-found", line 85, in main
    if not cnf.advise(args[0].encode('utf-8'), options.ignore_installed) and not options.no_failure_msg:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/CommandNotFound/CommandNotFound.py", line 252, in advise
    print >> sys.stderr, _("The program '%s' is currently not installed. ") % command,
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 45: ordinal not in range(128)