[bug #2980] (thuban) About box causes exception

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this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=2980
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Subject: About box causes exception

looks like it doesn't like the results of calling unicodeToLocale().

Currently using:
	wxPython 2.5.3.2pre
	Python 2.3.5
	PySQLite 1.0.1
	SQLite 2.8.15
	GDAL 1.2.5.0
	psycopg - not available

Compiled for:
	GTK 2.4.14
	proj 4.4.9


An unhandled exception occurred:
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)
(please report to http://thuban.intevation.org/bugtracker.html)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jpc/arbeit/intevation/devel5/thuban/Thuban/UI/mainwindow.py",
line 300, in invoke_command
    command.Execute(self.Context())
  File "/home/jpc/arbeit/intevation/devel5/thuban/Thuban/UI/command.py", line
121, in Execute
    apply(self.function, (context,) + self.args + args, kw)
  File "/home/jpc/arbeit/intevation/devel5/thuban/Thuban/UI/mainwindow.py",
line 1075, in call_method
    apply(getattr(context.mainwindow, methodname), args)
  File "/home/jpc/arbeit/intevation/devel5/thuban/Thuban/UI/mainwindow.py",
line 549, in About
    dlg = About(self)
  File "/home/jpc/arbeit/intevation/devel5/thuban/Thuban/UI/about.py", line
96, in __init__
    text += '\t%s\n' % name
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 9:
ordinal not in range(128)

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