wxgui About GRASS fails with UnicodeDecodeError

[marisn]

WinGRASS-6.4.SVN-r49260-1 on Windows 7 Help->About GRASS:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Program Files/GRASS
6.4.SVN/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 614, in OnAboutGRASS

win = AboutWindow(self)
  File "C:\Program Files\GRASS
6.4.SVN\etc\wxpython\gui_modules\ghelp.py", line 547, in
__init__

(_("Contributors"), self._pageContributors()),
  File "C:\Program Files\GRASS
6.4.SVN\etc\wxpython\gui_modules\ghelp.py", line 702, in
_pageContributors

label = item))
  File "C:\Program Files\GRASS 6.4.SVN\Python25\lib\site-
packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode\wx\_controls.py", line 1136, in
__init__

_controls_.StaticText_swiginit(self,_controls_.new_StaticTex
t(*args, **kwargs))
  File "C:\Program Files\GRASS
6.4.SVN\Python25\lib\encodings\cp1257.py", line 15, in
decode

return codecs.charmap_decode(input,errors,decoding_table)
UnicodeDecodeError
:
'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 19:
character maps to <undefined>

[glynn]

Replying to marisn:

This has already been fixed in 6.5 (r47387) and 7.0 (r47386), but has not been back-ported to 6.4.

[martinl]

Replying to glynn:

Replying to marisn:

This has already been fixed in 6.5 (r47387) and 7.0 (r47386), but has not been back-ported to 6.4.

done in r49450.