When I enter 'smart --gui' I will get:
[pclinux@myhome ~]$ smart channel --show
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 194, in ?
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 167, in main
    exitcode = iface.run(opts.command, opts.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/interface.py", line 53, in run
    result = _command.main(self._ctrl, opts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/commands/channel.py", line 305,
in main
    print desc
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/codecs.py", line 178, in write
    data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 40: ordinal
not in range(128)
[pclinux@myhome ~]$  
    
Userd version: smart 0.41

User Destib: Fedora Core Linux 4

Best Regards: Jochen Schmitt