openstv crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in decode(): 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 25: invalid continuation byte

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While attempting to run the attached ballot file, this exception is raised at certain display widths. For example, no problem is apparent with a display width of 100 chars, while the crash happens at a display width of 80 characters. Changing the name of the candidate "Mana ಠдಠ" to "Mana" worked around the issue.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: openstv 1.6.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.13-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Aug 24 22:17:23 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/openstv
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/openstv
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/openstv']
SourcePackage: openstv
Title: openstv crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in decode(): 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 25: invalid continuation byte
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-23 (1 days ago)
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