[Bug 1014898] Re: do-release-upgrade crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1001335 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1001335

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** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1001335
   do-release-upgrade crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

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Title:
  do-release-upgrade crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in /usr/lib/update-
  manager/check-new-release: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
  u'\xe7' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 version, and trying to update this S.O.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: update-manager-core 1:0.152.18
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Jun 18 20:27:07 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/do-release-upgrade
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release -q
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release', '-q']
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  Title: do-release-upgrade crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in /usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)
  Traceback:
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/lib/update-manager/check-new-release", line 109, in <module>
       print _("New release '%s' available.") % m.new_dist.version
   UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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