Index: /grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/gui/wxpython/lmgr/frame.py
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--- /grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/gui/wxpython/lmgr/frame.py	(revision 56740)
+++ /grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/gui/wxpython/lmgr/frame.py	(revision 57908)
@@ -764,4 +764,7 @@
         
         self.goutput.WriteCmdLog(_("System Info"))
+        # platform from UTF-8 conversion was added because of Fedora 19
+        # which has the name Schrodinger's cat (umlaut and special ' character)
+        # which appears in the platform.platform() string
         self.goutput.WriteLog("%s: %s\n"
                               "%s: %s\n"
@@ -777,5 +780,5 @@
                                            platform.python_version(),
                                            wx.__version__,
-                                           _("Platform"), platform.platform(), osgeo4w),
+                                           _("Platform"), platform.platform().decode('utf8', errors='replace'), osgeo4w),
                               switchPage = True)
         self.goutput.WriteCmdLog(' ')