diff -Naur ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/Timezone.py ubiquity.patched/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/Timezone.py
--- ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/Timezone.py	2012-09-27 18:11:04.538848046 +0300
+++ ubiquity.patched/ubiquity/frontend/kde_components/Timezone.py	2012-09-27 18:07:37.705822400 +0300
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 class TimezoneMap(QtGui.QWidget):
 
+    QtCore.QTextCodec.setCodecForCStrings(QtCore.QTextCodec.CodecForName("utf8"))
     zoneChanged = QtCore.pyqtSignal(object, object)
 
     def __init__(self, parent):