[Bug 827355] Re: add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1392-1394: ordinal not in range(128)

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** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__:
  'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1392-1394: ordinal
  not in range(128)

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Appeared on adding ppa:chromium-daily/dev

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: python-software-properties 0.81.6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Aug 16 17:25:29 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/add-apt-repository
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/dev
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/add-apt-repository', 'ppa:chromium-daily/dev']
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  Title: add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1392-1394: ordinal not in range(128)
  Traceback:
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 77, in <module>
       print " %s" % (ppa_info["description"] or "")
   UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1392-1394: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-16 (0 days ago)
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