[ubuntu-dev] Bug#691998: TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported

[Stuart Prescott]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tags -1 patch

This bug leaves the gdebi-kde executable completely broken -- it can't even 
generate help output let alone install packages.

In gdebi-kde, _ is set to the ugettext function rather than gettext ( (as 
opposed to gdebi-gtk where it is gettext). The result of 

	help=unicode(_("Run non-interactive (dangerous!)"),"UTF-8"))

is that unicode is trying to decode a unicode object as UTF-8 rather than a 
string. Python can't do that, so you get the reported error.

The attached patch removes what I believe to be the unicode(…, "UTF-8") call.

cheers
Stuart

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