Hello! Attached is a patch to fix a bug preventing many polyglots from using liveusb-creator. The symptom is that when starting the app, you would get this traceback (or a variant of it) no matter what kind of USB stick you have plugged in, preventing you from selecting any usb device:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 586, in msg_reply_handler reply_handler(*message.get_args_list(**get_args_opts)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/liveusb/creator.py", line 451, in handle_reply 'label': str(dev.Get(device, 'IdLabel')).replace(' ', '_'), UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

Well, it turns out that the cause, on my end, was a NTFS partition called "Réservé au système" (System reserved) created by Windows. Looks like the IdLabel is unicode, and trying to convert it to str tends to blow things up. Luckily, the fix turned out to be trivial, so the git-formatted patch is attached to this mail.

This probably fixes Redhat bugs 710785, 717356, 736643 and 768940 (from a simple search of the word "IdLabel" in RHBZ) and will surely make many international users happy. I haven't dug around to see if there could be similar bugs related to unicode/string handling, but maybe that's something you'd want to check :)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=fedora +liveusb-creator+encode https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=fedora +liveusb-creator+range etc.

Please let me know if it works for you, but keep me c.c.'ed because I'm not subscribed to the mailing list. Cheers

P.s.: - Any ideas why the (pyqt4) app looks so.... Wineish on a stock Fedora GNOME system? Isn't Qt supposed to mimic GTK's look? - For some reason the application doesn't have a close button on its window decoration in GNOME3/mutter. Maybe it's using the wrong dialog type? Took a brief look, but since I'm only used to glade/PyGTK I don't really know how to fix that. In any case, currently the only way to close the application is to press Alt+F4, which is not intuitive!