ubuntuone-control-panel-qt crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _handle_finished(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3007: ordinal not in range(128)

[JULIAN ROBLES]

TEST CASE
1. Launch ubuntuone-control-panel-qt
2. Switch to 'Account Information'

ACTUAL RESULT:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntu-sso-client/ubuntu_sso/utils/webclient/qtnetwork.py", line 202, in _handle_finished
    content = unicode(content)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 2071: ordinal not in range(128)

Ubuntu One init crash.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubuntuone-control-panel-qt 2.99.92-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 5 14:08:25 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ubuntuone-control-panel-qt
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120327)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/ubuntuone-control-panel-qt
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/ubuntuone-control-panel-qt']
SourcePackage: ubuntuone-control-panel
Title: ubuntuone-control-panel-qt crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _handle_finished(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3007: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers

[Alejandro J. Cura (alecu)]

The code is assuming that the bytes coming from the network are in the same encoding as the system encoding used by python.
This is wrong, and should be fixed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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