jockey-text crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in error_msg(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-2: ordinal not in range(128)

[Lafanya]

jockey-text crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in error_msg(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-2: ordinal not in range(128)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: jockey-common 0.9.1-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic-pae 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 5 10:23:29 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/jockey-text
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MachineType: System manufacturer Maximus II Formula
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/jockey-text -C --no-dbus
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru_RU.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 LC_COLLATE=C
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-5-generic-pae root=UUID=6fe49d67-8313-4164-8176-c3f423480a52 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/jockey-text', '-C', '--no-dbus']
SourcePackage: jockey
Title: jockey-text crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in error_msg(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-2: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 04/15/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2302
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: Maximus II Formula
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr2302:bd04/15/2010:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnMaximusIIFormula:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnMaximusIIFormula:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: Maximus II Formula
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, seems a crash which some users ran into, assigning to pitti