The upstream bug says it's not meant to work with unicode, and they updated the documentation instead. So setting the ubuntu task to wontfix, too.
** Changed in: python2.7 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905429 Title: gnome-language-selector crashed with ValueError in _build_localename(): too many values to unpack To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/python/+bug/905429/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs