software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _update_pkg_info_table(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)

Bug #874493 reported by Adam Niedling
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Bug Description

I'm using Oneiric. I clicked on the picture that says 'Braid' and got this crash. See attached screenshot.

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 i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 3573f48fa99c25dbd591a823d1e74fe5
CheckboxSystem: c69722ecac764861be52925fa50b4dcc
Date: Fri Oct 14 20:13:22 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _update_pkg_info_table(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Adam Niedling (krychek) wrote :
visibility: private → public
tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
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Kiwinote (kiwinote) wrote :

Hi! Thanks for your bug report. We are tracking this issue over at bug 868834. Please continue to report any bugs you may find in software-center. Thanks again for your help!

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