software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in set_description(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

[Eduard Hasenleithner]

Just wanted to install bibble5-5.2.2_amd64.deb from http://www.bibble.com/ by means of double-clicking the package-file in nautilus. Maybe it is worth noting that the package was removed by a "partial system upgrade" a few minutes before. Nevertheless, as far as I can remember this is the first time I tried to install the bibble5 package using software-center. Previously I just installed using "dpkg -i", which worked fine.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 26 20:24:07 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center-gtk3
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110705.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center-gtk3 /mnt/sdb6/download/bibble5-5.2.2_amd64.deb
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_AT:de
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center-gtk3', '/mnt/sdb6/download/bibble5-5.2.2_amd64.deb']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in set_description(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-26 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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