[Bug 836944] Re: software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in position 89: ordinal not in range(128)

[Boyd']

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 834494 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/834494

The link to bug #834494 gives me this: Bug 834494 cannot be found ...

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Title:
  software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in
  get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in
  position 89: ordinal not in range(128)

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Can not install Adobe Flash in 11.10 Alfa 3 after todays update broke
  flash movies from playing, complaining I have an old version
  installed.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 4.1.20
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Aug 29 21:30:16 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center-gtk3
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110215)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center-gtk3
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center-gtk3']
  SourcePackage: software-center
  Title: software-center-gtk3 crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in position 89: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-14 (15 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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