Comment 3 for bug 870012

I have this bug still on 12.04, using this version:

rich@RichU:~/temp$ dpkg -s software-properties-common
Package: software-properties-common
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 129
Maintainer: Michael Vogt <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Source: software-properties
Version: 0.82.7.7
Depends: python2.7, python (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2), python (<< 2.8), python-gi, gir1.2-glib-2.0, python-dbus
Conffiles:
 /etc/dbus-1/system.d/com.ubuntu.SoftwareProperties.conf cc3c01a5b5e8e05d40c9c075f44c43ea
Description: manage the repositories that you install software from (common)
 This software provides an abstraction of the used apt repositories.
 It allows you to easily manage your distribution and independent software
 vendor software sources.
 .
 This package contains the common files for software-properties like the
 D-Bus backend.

..when using conkyGuayadeque.py like so:

rich@RichU:~/temp$ python conkyGuayadeque.py
ERROR: Issue calling the dbus service:'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 25: ordinal not in range(128)

It doesn't like songs by, for example, Röyksopp. I note that version 0.82.7.7 of software-properties is much more recent than Brian's comment.