same problem, ubuntu feisty
everything was OK, i use the soft since few months and suddenly....
same shell output.

I run the 1.2.9 from the sources now, same result.

uh.. i found a way to make it start again but i feel a bit ashamed... the error was occuring on line 372 (this part of the file looks like this) 369 globals.Log("-------------Showing preferences:") 370 for key,value in globals.preferences_list.items(): 371 if key != "password": 3...

same problem but subdownloader was doing fine a few hours ago.

and then UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)

what does that mean ?