[Bug 928891] Re: ubiquity crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in geoname_cb(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)

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Title:
  ubiquity crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in geoname_cb(): 'ascii'
  codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 21: ordinal not in
  range(128)

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Happening while trying to install ubuntu whit desktop shortcut.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.287
  Date: Wed Feb  8 00:36:27 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity gtk_ui
  ProcEnviron: Error: [Errno 13] Permiso denegado: '/proc/13024/environ'
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', 'gtk_ui']
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  Title: ubiquity crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in geoname_cb(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)
  Traceback:
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-timezone.py", line 170, in geoname_cb
       (text, message.status_code, message.reason_phrase))
   UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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