software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in get_install_warning_text(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

Bug #871040 reported by Xavier Tartaglia
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Bug Description

I was trying to install Adobe Flash Player 10 from the Adobe site, but it didn't work out. I tried twice.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 5.0.1.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 8 19:42:50 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr:de:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in get_install_warning_text(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-08 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Xavier Tartaglia (xtartaglia) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

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 #857416, 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.

tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
visibility: private → public
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