Unable to create Ubuntu 12.04 installation USB stick on Ubuntu 12.04

Bug #1013511 reported by Shih-Yuan Lee
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1289314: 'Installation failed' error message. Edit Remove
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Dimitri John Ledkov

Bug Description

= Reproduce Step =

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ usb-creator-gtk -n -i ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 551, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/usbcreator/install.py", line 148, in run
    self._failure(_('An uncaught exception was raised:\n%s') % str(e))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)

= System Information =

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/default/locale
LANG="zh_TW.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="zh_TW:zh"

Source: usb-creator
Version: 0.2.38

= Workaround =

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ LANG=C LANGUAGE=C usb-creator-gtk -n -i ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso

Tags: precise
description: updated
Changed in usb-creator (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in usb-creator (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Dmitrijs Ledkovs (dmitrij.ledkov)
Gary M (garym)
tags: added: precise
Changed in usb-creator (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom) wrote :

Same for 13.10. Log attached.

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Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom) wrote :

LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8

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Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom) wrote :

Same fot 14.04.

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