*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 820028 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/820028
I have this bug still on 12.04, using this version: rich@RichU:~/temp$ dpkg -s software-properties-common Package: software-properties-common Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 129 Maintainer: Michael Vogt <michael.v...@ubuntu.com> Architecture: all Source: software-properties Version: 0.82.7.7 Depends: python2.7, python (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2), python (<< 2.8), python-gi, gir1.2-glib-2.0, python-dbus Conffiles: /etc/dbus-1/system.d/com.ubuntu.SoftwareProperties.conf cc3c01a5b5e8e05d40c9c075f44c43ea Description: manage the repositories that you install software from (common) This software provides an abstraction of the used apt repositories. It allows you to easily manage your distribution and independent software vendor software sources. . This package contains the common files for software-properties like the D-Bus backend. ..when using conkyGuayadeque.py like so: rich@RichU:~/temp$ python conkyGuayadeque.py ERROR: Issue calling the dbus service:'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 25: ordinal not in range(128) It doesn't like songs by, for example, Röyksopp. I note that version 0.82.7.7 of software-properties is much more recent than Brian's comment. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/870012 Title: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/870012/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs