After having installed version 1.4.7 from python.org,

starting the server
or
roundup-admin -v
or
roundup-server -v

(e.g.)

leads to error

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/roundup-admin", line 2, in <module>
    from roundup.scripts.roundup_admin import run
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/roundup/scripts/roundup_admin.py",
line 27, in <module>
    from roundup.admin import AdminTool
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/roundup/admin.py", line 27, in
<module>
    from roundup import date, hyperdb, roundupdb, init, password, token
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/roundup/date.py", line 34, in
<module>
    from roundup import i18n
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/roundup/i18n.py", line 222, in
<module>
    translation = get_translation()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/roundup/i18n.py", line 212, in
get_translation
    translator = translation_class(open(mofiles[0], "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 bytes in position 176-178:
invalid data
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I did NOT YET follow migration notes from...

http://roundup-tracker.org/docs/upgrading.html#migrating-from-1-4-x-to-1-4-7

...but I doubt this will have an effect to the utf8-error shown.