This is happening because gettext.gettext() returns 'str' but e.g. Spanish translation is in utf-8.
to reproduce on en_US (latin1-compatible) installs - export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=es_ES:en_US:en LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
and then launch ubuntuone-control-panel-qt
This is happening because gettext.gettext() returns 'str' but e.g. Spanish translation is in utf-8.
to reproduce on en_US (latin1-compatible) installs - export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= es_ES:en_ US:en LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 control- panel-qt
and then launch ubuntuone-