[Bug 859009] Re: do-release-upgrade crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)

[Jan Groenewald]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 945498 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/945498

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 945498
   Kubuntu: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9'

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Title:
  do-release-upgrade crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__:
  'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 16: ordinal
  not in range(128)

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

Bug description:
  error upgrading Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: update-manager-core 1:0.152.19
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Sep 25 13:08:11 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/do-release-upgrade
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/do-release-upgrade -d
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
   LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade', '-d']
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  Title: do-release-upgrade crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)
  Traceback:
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade", line 77, in <module>
       print _("Checking for a new ubuntu release")
   UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-25 (0 days ago)
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