I have verified using the French locale that version 5.0.3.1 of software-center in oneiric-proposed fixes this issue for me (I tested using the Adobe Flashplugin package, per duplicates bug 869186 and bug 870474) .
Thanks! ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/862029 Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _render_status_text(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe6 in position 6: ordinal not in range(128) Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “software-center” source package in Oneiric: Fix Committed Bug description: bug ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: software-center 4.1.23.6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Sep 29 12:51:00 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=zh_CN:zh PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center'] SourcePackage: software-center Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _render_status_text(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe6 in position 6: ordinal not in range(128) UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/862029/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
