frals : said and done. here is the output:

$ /opt/fmms/fmms_gui.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/fmms/fmms_gui.py", line 459, in <module>
app = fMMS_GUI()
File "/opt/fmms/fmms_gui.py", line 36, in __init__
self.cont = fMMSController.fMMS_controllerGTK()
File "/opt/fmms/controller_gtk.py", line 33, in __init__
self.config_label = gettext.ldgettext('rtcom-messaging-ui', "messaging_me_main_settings")
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 538, in ldgettext
codeset=_localecodesets.get(domain))
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 478, in translation
t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb')))
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 180, in __init__
self._parse(fp)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 337, in _parse
tmsg = unicode(tmsg, self._charset)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 12: unexpected end of data
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