The fix is to declare the encoding in /usr/share/onboard/utils.py
The maintainer should add the following line: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- -----for completeness here is the stack trace Stack trace from onboard. It looks like a UTF issue. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/onboard/run-onboard.py", line 3, in <module> from sok import Sok File "/usr/share/onboard/sok.py", line 6, in <module> from Keyboard import Keyboard File "/usr/share/onboard/Keyboard.py", line 11, in <module> from utils import run_script File "/usr/share/onboard/utils.py", line 17 SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file /usr/share/onboard/utils.py on line 17, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details ** Changed in: onboard (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- [apport] run-onboard.py crashed with SyntaxError in run_script() https://launchpad.net/bugs/81910 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs