Comment 0 for bug 347327

Kpackagekit crashes when installing packages from folders with non ascii names:

kpackagekit /home/kasutaja/Töö/knemo_0.5.1-0~getdeb1_i386.deb
isFIle
kasutaja@ARLA32:~$ New transaction with tid "/27_badbbbac_data"
KPackageKit(5091) KpkIcons::actionIcon: action unrecognised: 9
enumFromString ( State ) : converted "" to "" , enum value -1
KPackageKit(5091) KpkTransaction::errorCode: errorCode: 3 "Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/daemonBackend.py", line 109, in run
    threading.Thread.run(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 477, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/packagekit/aptDBUSBackend.py", line 168, in wrapper
    func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/packagekit/aptDBUSBackend.py", line 1261, in doInstallFiles
    deb = debfile.DebPackage(path, self._cache)
  File "/usr/lib/packagekit/debfile.py", line 53, in __init__
    self.open(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/packagekit/debfile.py", line 58, in open
    if not apt_inst.arCheckMember(open(self.filename), "debian-binary"):
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 16-17: ordinal not in range(128)
"
KPackageKit(5091) KpkTransaction::finished: Failed.
KPackageKit(5091) KpkTransaction::finished: Yep, we failed.
KPackageKit(5091) KpkInstallFiles::installFilesFinished: Finished.
removing transaction from pool : "/27_badbbbac_data"

This occurs with letters such as ö, ä, ü, õ and it is important since for example "Desktop" is "Töölaud" in Estonian and "Työpöytä" in Finnish.