bittornado: encounters double-byte characters for Japanese and crashes

[sageb1]

Package: bittornado
Version: 0.3.13-1ubuntu2
Severity: important
Tags: l10n

BitTorrent T-0.3.13 (BitTornado)
OS: linux2
Python version: 2.4.3 (#2, Oct  6 2006, 07:52:30) 
[GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)]
wxWindows version: 2.6.1.2pre

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/btdownloadgui", line 476, in onInvoke
      apply(event.func, event.args, event.kwargs)
        File "/usr/bin/btdownloadgui", line 2019, in onChooseFile
	    if d2 == default:
	    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers dapper-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'dapper-updates'), (500, 'dapper-security'), (500, 'dapper-backports'), (500, 'dapper')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-51-686
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages bittornado depends on:
ii  python                    2.4.2-0ubuntu3 An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages bittornado recommends:
ii  mime-support                  3.35-2     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap

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