[Bug 1041431] Re: add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 880-887: ordinal not in range(128)

[Colin Watson]

** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Committed

** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)

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Title:
  add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__:
  'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 880-887: ordinal not
  in range(128)

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Tried running the following command in a terminal..

  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

  ..resulted in:

  ~$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
  You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/apt-add-repository", line 140, in <module>
      print(" %s" % (ppa_info["description"] or ""))
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 880-887: ordinal not in range(128)

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: software-properties-common 0.91
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-11.11-generic 3.5.2
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Aug 24 21:56:42 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/add-apt-repository
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.2mu
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3.2 /usr/bin/add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/add-apt-repository', 'ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa']
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  Title: add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 880-887: ordinal not in range(128)
  Traceback:
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 140, in <module>
       print(" %s" % (ppa_info["description"] or ""))
   UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 880-887: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-23 (1 days ago)
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