Merge lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/fix-crash-lp967036 into lp:software-center

[Gary Lasker]

Small branch to fix a crash due to a UnicodeDecodeError when accessing the short description for H/W requirements.

Thanks!

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for this fix.

review: Approve

=== modified file 'softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/labels.py'
--- softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/labels.py	2012-03-15 21:47:29 +0000
+++ softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/widgets/labels.py	2012-03-29 19:11:22 +0000
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 from gettext import gettext as _
 
 from softwarecenter.hw import get_hw_short_description
+from softwarecenter.utils import utf8
 
 
 class HardwareRequirementsLabel(Gtk.HBox):
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@
             s = self.LABEL
         return _(s) % {
             "sym": sym,
-            "hardware": _(get_hw_short_description(self.tag))
+            "hardware": _(utf8(get_hw_short_description(self.tag)))
             }
 
     def set_hardware_requirement(self, tag, result):