[Bug 846044] Re: software-center crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 65: ordinal not in range(128)

[Michael Vogt]

I can reproduce this with:
$ LANGUAGE=de ./software-center 0ad:i386
and then clicking on "install". With some debug code added I get:

2012-10-08 09:07:52,447 - softwarecenter.backend - WARNING -
_on_trans_error: 'UnicodeDecodeError('ascii', 'Transaction failed: Die
Paketabh\xc3\xa4ngigkeiten k\xc3\xb6nnen nicht aufgel\xc3\xb6st
werden\n', 32, 33, 'ordinal not in range(128)')' '<AptTransaction object
at 0x562bdc0 (aptdaemon+client+AptTransaction at 0x2d126e0)>' '0ad:i386'

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Title:
  software-center crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message():
  'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 65: ordinal
  not in range(128)

Status in Aptdaemon:
  Fix Released
Status in “aptdaemon” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “aptdaemon” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released
Status in “aptdaemon” source package in Quantal:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  I've tried to install an program. After clicking on "install" and
  entered password, the software center crashes.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 4.1.22
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic-pae 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Sep  9 23:31:38 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
  SourcePackage: software-center
  Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in get_dbus_message(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 65: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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