software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in get_xapian_document(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 30: ordinal not in range(128)

[Joao M. Horta]

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ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.1.13.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Mar 23 21:24:12 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120225)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center /home/username/Transferências/teamviewer_linux_x64.deb
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_PT:
 LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', '/home/username/Transfer\xc3\xaancias/teamviewer_linux_x64.deb']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in get_xapian_document(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 30: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I tried to reproduce this but without success. I did the following steps:
$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://www.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_linux_x64.deb
$ software-center teamviewer_linux_x64.deb
and that worked without a error mesage. Could you please try the same steps and see if it fails
for you? Any help in reproducing this would be appreciated :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for software-center (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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