[Bug 883297] Re: add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 209-211: ordinal not in range(128)

[Jeff.Crown]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 827355 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/827355


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Title:
  add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__:
  'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 209-211: ordinal not
  in range(128)

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

Bug description:
  This error was caused by issuing the following command:
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: python-software-properties 0.81.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.287
  Date: Fri Oct 28 15:19:53 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/add-apt-repository
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/add-apt-repository', 'ppa:n-muench/vlc']
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  Title: add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 209-211: ordinal not in range(128)
  Traceback:
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 80, in <module>
       print " %s" % (ppa_info["description"] or "")
   UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 209-211: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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