kubuntu live-installer crash

pressed install
language english
layout swedish
timezone stockholm

When I choose manually edit partition table I get a crash:
Traceback:
file "usr/bin/ubiquity", line 112 in ?
install(sys.argv[1])
file "usr/bin/ubiquity", line 52 in ?
ret=wizard.run()
file "usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 305 in run
self.process_step()
samefile as above line 719 in process_step
self.process_disk_selection()
same file as above line771 in process_disk_selection
if self.manual_choice is None or unicode(choice, "utf-8") == self.manual_choice:
TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported

As a side note..before this installation I started skim opened kate tried ctrl-space to see if it worked(it didn't). closed down skim which crashed. Then choose to install.