This is happening because gettext.gettext() returns 'str' but e.g. Spanish translation is in utf-8.
to reproduce on en_US (latin1-compatible) installs - export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=es_ES:en_US:en LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 and then launch ubuntuone-control-panel-qt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/937809 Title: ubuntuone-control-panel-qt crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntuone-control- panel/ubuntuone/controlpanel/gui/qt/filesyncstatus.py: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 24: ordinal not in range(128) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntuone-control-panel/+bug/937809/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
