Looking at https://bugs.python.org/issue18171, it may be better to replace:
os.path.expanduser(u"~/.config/variety/") with os.path.expanduser("~/.config/variety/") However, I haven't tested this myself, so I can't confirm whether it works. ** Bug watch added: Python Roundup #18171 http://bugs.python.org/issue18171 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1642533 Title: Variety crashed if user's home directory path contains Unicode characters(variety crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in expanduser(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe6 in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/variety/+bug/1642533/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs