[bug #4615] (thuban) when trying to open help section error windows opens, new layer of graphic a file (tiff) can not be loaded

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Subject: when trying to open help section error windows opens, new layer of graphic a file (tiff) can not be loaded

Operating System: MS Windows, WiNXP SP2  Poffesional v.2002
Thuban version: 1.0.1, v.1.0.1.0
wxPython version: 2.4.2.4, win32-2.4.2.4Pyt23
Python version: other, v. 2.3.4
PySQLite version: 0.4.3, win32-py23
SQLite version: other, not installed
GDAL version: 1.1.8, w2k-py23
proj version: not installed

Please enter error description here.
Did you compile Thuban yourself?
If not, which binary package did you install (eg. where did you get it from)?
Installation file was Tuban-1.0.1.0.exe (791424 b)
error message follows...
raceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Thuban\Thuban\UI\mainwindow.py", line 282, in invoke_command
    command.Execute(self.Context())
  File "C:\Thuban\Thuban\UI\command.py", line 121, in Execute
    apply(self.function, (context,) + self.args + args, kw)
  File "C:\Thuban\Thuban\UI\mainwindow.py", line 957, in call_method
    apply(getattr(context.mainwindow, methodname), args)
  File "C:\Thuban\Thuban\UI\mainwindow.py", line 460, in About
    dlg = About(self)
  File "C:\Thuban\Thuban\UI\about.py", line 36, in __init__
    developers = [ 'Jonathan Coles (2003)',
  File "C:\Thuban\Thuban\UI\about.py", line 140, in unicodeToLocale
    return unicodeStr.encode(getdefaultlocale()[1])
  File "D:\Python23\lib\encodings\cp1251.py", line 18, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 8: character maps to <undefined>


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