UnicodeDecodeError with Windows french operating system

[giampaolo]

From nicolash...@gmail.com on April 27, 2014 16:08:58

What steps will reproduce the problem?  
import psutil
psutil.net_io_counters() 

What do you see instead?  
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codex can't decode byte 0x9 in position 14 

What version of psutil are you using? What Python version?  
Python 3.4
PSUtil 2.1.0 

On what operating system? Is it 32bit or 64bit version?  
Windows 7 Pro 64 bits (French edition) 

Please provide any additional information below.  
Network interface name have special caracter: é

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/detail?id=500

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on April 29, 2014 10:40:36

Status: Duplicate
Mergedinto: 446