Just an update on things.

The Foursquare API returns everything in UTF-8 encoding, but internally Barriosquare is converting strings to ASCII in places (this seems to be a simple oversight by the original developers). So as soon as you check in to anything with a non-ASCII character in the venue name or if you have friends with non-ASCII characters in their names, etc, things start going wrong.

The crash on boot bug appears to be a manifestation of this.

This will possibly take a bit of work to get right, so bear with us. This issue is at the top of the list of things to fix though. I've got a whole lot on at the moment and have spent a lot of time on barriosquare lately getting it working with PR1.2, but I will try and get this issue resolved as soon as I can.

In the meantime, if there's any keen Python/Qt developers out there who want to hack away on the code, feel free to clone it on gitorious at http://www.gitorious.org/barriosquare and send me merge requests

Cheers,

Scott.