[Bug 721778] Re: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __init__(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

[Martin Pitt]

Thanks for this! I can replicate the crash here, the problem is the
mixing of unicode and str here. As set_label() eventually expects an
UTF-8 str, I think it's cleaner to explicitly encode the Unicode as
UTF-8:

-            "repository, for example  '%s'.") % ("<i>%s</i>" % example)
+            "repository, for example  '%s'.") % ("<i>%s</i>" % example).encode('UTF-8')

I committed this to bzr now.

** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed

** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti)

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Title:
  software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __init__():
  'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2: ordinal not in
  range(128)

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Crash right after login. Therefore - no more information to give. :-)

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: software-properties-gtk 0.80.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-4.31-generic 2.6.38-rc5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-4-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Feb 19 02:26:31 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110202)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk -n -t 58720385
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_AT:de:en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=de_AT.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk', '-n', '-t', '58720385']
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  Title: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __init__(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)
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