This is indeed a unicode problem. The strange thing is that it works when killing and launching aptd from the command line.
According to http://docs.python.org/py3k/howto/unicode.html#unicode-filenames , this is because the LANG environment variable is not set when aptd is spawned by the sotware-center. In this case, the default encoding for pathes is ASCII. I hacked arround and was able to confirm this (by writing os.environ in a file). So here is the bug. Though, I'm not sure about the best way to fix it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058038 Title: <class 'UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 18-25: ordinal not in range(128) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptdaemon/+bug/1058038/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
