[Bug 868834] Re: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _update_pkg_info_table(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

[Robert Roth]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

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Title:
  software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in
  _update_pkg_info_table(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in
  position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

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

Bug description:
  I marked 'partner' repository and to update, then it's occurred.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 5.0.1.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Oct  5 22:31:54 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20111005)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center /home/username/Downloads/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', '/home/username/Downloads/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb']
  SourcePackage: software-center
  Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _update_pkg_info_table(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 8: 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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