This occurs to me on latest 14.04 64 bit with all updates. Tracker refers me to duplicate https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source /software-center/+bug/1102389 by default.
Nothing special happening cannot install software via center. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1082629 Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _call_apport_recoverable_error(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 16: ordinal not in range(128) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/software-center/+bug/1082629/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs