jockey-text crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in write(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 17: ordinal not in range(128)

[AO]

On a fully updated Oneiric, this happened as system had just been started with only terminal and Firefox running.
This followed jockey-common crash (bug # 815350).

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: jockey-common 0.9.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-6.7-generic 3.0.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-6-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.var.log.jockey.log:

Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 19 06:42:26 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/jockey-text
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110705.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/jockey-text -C --no-dbus -k 3.0-3-generic
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LC_COLLATE=C
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-6-generic root=/dev/sda2 ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash vt.handoff=7
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/jockey-text', '-C', '--no-dbus', '-k', '3.0-3-generic']
SourcePackage: jockey
Title: jockey-text crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in write(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 17: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 12/10/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0902
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: M4A88TD-M/USB3
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0902:bd12/10/2010:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnM4A88TD-M/USB3:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #758860, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.