[Bug 1068480] [NEW] UnicodeEncodeError while command line upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10

[Alexander Lazarević]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1068389 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1068389

Public bug reported:

This is on a german Ubuntu 12.04 installation, so that these envvars are
set like this:

LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8

I did the following:

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

When the upgrade told me how long the upgrade will eventually take, I pressed d for details.
This triggers a traceback with the following error:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbb' in
position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: quantal

** Tags added: quantal

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Title:
  UnicodeEncodeError while command line upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10

Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is on a german Ubuntu 12.04 installation, so that these envvars
  are set like this:

  LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
  LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8
  LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
  LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8

  I did the following:

  sudo do-release-upgrade -d

  When the upgrade told me how long the upgrade will eventually take, I pressed d for details.
  This triggers a traceback with the following error:

  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbb' in
  position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

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