Is this the same as the bug described upstream at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1521274&group_id=22307&atid=374932?
If so, there is a patch, and apparently a fix in the development version. -- UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode certain bytes https://launchpad.net/bugs/57067 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs