[Bug 1058038] Re: <class 'UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 18-25: ordinal not in range(128)

[Michael Vogt]

<pitti> just saying that if all else fails, hardcoding utf-8 shoudl
avoid 99% of the problems with a really trivial/safe patch?

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Title:
  <class 'UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in
  position 18-25: ordinal not in range(128)

Status in “aptdaemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “dbus” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “python3.2” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 1181, in _simulate
      trans.unauthenticated, trans.high_trust_packages = self.__simulate(trans)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 1239, in __simulate
      deb = self.install_file(trans, simulate=True, **trans.kwargs)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 740, in install_file
      deb = self._check_deb_file(trans, path, force)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 1326, in _check_deb_file
      if not os.path.isfile(path):
    File "/usr/lib/python3.2/genericpath.py", line 29, in isfile
      st = os.stat(path)
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 18-25: ordinal not in range(128)

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: aptdaemon 0.45+bzr861-0ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.23-generic 3.5.4
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic i686
  Annotation: Installation of the package file failed
  ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Sep 28 16:53:16 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta i386 (20120926)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: aptdaemon
  Title: <class 'UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 18-25: ordinal not in range(128)
  TransactionDepends: [[], [], [], [], [], [], []]
  TransactionErrorCode: error-unknown
  TransactionKwargs: {'path': dbus.String('/home/silentlight/Загрузки/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb'), 'force': dbus.Boolean(False)}
  TransactionLocale: ru_RU.UTF-8
  TransactionOutput:
   
  TransactionPackages: [[], [], [], [], [], []]
  TransactionRole: role-install-file
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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