[Bug 1130444] Re: unicode character crashes command-not-found application

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** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/utopic-proposed/command-not-found

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Title:
  unicode character crashes command-not-found application

Status in “command-not-found” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
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  Command-not-found-Version: 0.3
  Python-Version: 3.2.3 final 0
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 12.10
  Release:	12.10
  Codename:	quantal
  Informationen zum Fehler:

  'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udcb6' in position 3: surrogates not allowed
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/CommandNotFound/util.py", line 24, in crash_guard
      callback()
    File "/usr/lib/command-not-found", line 87, in main
      if not cnf.advise(args[0], options.ignore_installed) and not options.no_failure_msg:
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/CommandNotFound/CommandNotFound.py", line 265, in advise
      packages = self.getPackages(command)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/CommandNotFound/CommandNotFound.py", line 157, in getPackages
      result.update([(pkg, db.component) for pkg in db.lookup(command)])
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/CommandNotFound/CommandNotFound.py", line 85, in lookup
      result = self.db.lookup(command)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/CommandNotFound/CommandNotFound.py", line 41, in lookup
      key = key.encode('utf-8')
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udcb6' in position 3: surrogates not allowed

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