[Jaunty] Trying to collect for bug 355851, apport-collect crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in encode()

Binary package hint: apport

Tried to run apport-collect 355851 but it failed with the following stacktrace:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apport-collect", line 173, in <module>
    upload(report, bug)
  File "/usr/bin/apport-collect", line 97, in upload
    filename=part.get_filename(), is_patch=False)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/launchpadlib/resource.py", line 337, in __call__
    args[key] = simplejson.dumps(value, cls=DatetimeJSONEncoder)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/simplejson/__init__.py", line 243, in dumps
    **kw).encode(obj)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/simplejson/encoder.py", line 360, in encode
    return encode_basestring_ascii(o)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xae in position 27423: unexpected code byte

ProblemType: Crash
ApportLog:

Architecture: i386
CrashReports: 600:1000:1000:10126:2009-04-17 19:42:18.005540000 +0100:2009-04-17 19:42:28.465544096 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_bin_apport-collect.1000.crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apport-collect
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: apport 1.0-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/apport-collect 355851
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/apport-collect', '355851']
SourcePackage: apport
Title: apport-collect crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in encode()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
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