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

Hello avaddon, or anyone else affected,

Accepted software-properties into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

This bug was fixed in the package software-properties - 0.81.13.1

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software-properties (0.81.13.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * debian/control:
    - add missing build-depends to dh-translations

  [ Philip Muskovac ]
  * lp:~yofel/software-properties/lp-819793:
    - Fix for bug 819793 as disable_child_source() now need the template
      name as parameter, not the template itself )LP: #819793

  [ Robert Roth ]
  * Fix warnings logged to terminal about inexistent handlers by checking
    if the handlers exist
  * Reset the popcon checkbox value if changed, but auth failed (LP: #874759)
  * Apt-add-repository --remove changed to also remove the debsrc
    line (LP: #838507)
  * Update the manpage of apt-add-repository with the available
    options. (LP: #697546)
  * Reset the text on the mirror testing dialog after closing/canceling
    it (LP: #875679)
  * Unicode encode PPA description and displaynam to avoid
    UnicodeDecodeErrors (LP: #827355)
  * Do not expand the server combobox (LP: #875131)

software-properties (0.81.13) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * lp:~kelemeng/software-properties/bug853231:
    - Build with dh_translations, to localize the .policy file at
      runtime. LP: #853231
    - Add missing files to POTFILES.in (LP: #853231)
      Many thanks to Gabor Kelemen
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:46:08 +0200