[Bug 1510237] [NEW] Software Center doesn't start on systems in Esperanto

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Robie Basak (racb):

When I start the Software Center it immediately gives me a fatal error
on my fresh 15.10 installation in Esperanto.

I got the following traceback when I tried to start the software-center
from the terminal: http://paste.ubuntu.com/12972133/

I looked at the traceback and I noticed the error occurred in the file region.py.
In the method _get_region_dumb we try to split the variable loc with the delimeter "_", but the input string does not contain an underscore in the first place. The variable loc only contains "eo" at this point, since Esperanto is not connected to a certain country there is no country code.

I managed to fix the method _get_region_dumb by adding a try/except
statement, but I am not able to do a pull request myself as I am not
really an expert in Bazaar and branches.

Could somebody update the method _get_region_dumb in region.py and replace it with the following or an other similar method: http://paste.ubuntu.com/12972109/
I only added the last try/except statement.

robin at robin-pc:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 15.10
Release:	15.10

robin at robin-pc:~$ apt-cache policy software-center
software-center:
  Instalita: 13.10-0ubuntu12
  Kandidato: 13.10-0ubuntu12
  Version table:
 *** 13.10-0ubuntu12 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

** Affects: software-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Triaged

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Software Center doesn't start on systems in Esperanto
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1510237
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