software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __str__(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd8 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

[albari]

error

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.23.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 22 01:41:36 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center cheese
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=ar_KW.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', 'cheese']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __str__(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd8 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-21 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

This looks very similar to bug 847050.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.