Comment 12 for bug 978654

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Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) wrote : Re: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 24: ordinal not in range(128)

I'm wondering if the problem is non-ascii characters in PPA descriptions.

Guys any of you have non-ascii characters in the output of this command?
sudo apt-key list
sudo apt-key list | iconv -f ascii

E.g. I have this, which contains greek chars, so it might be what's crashing aptd:

pub 1024D/9849BE20 2009-05-27
uid Hellenic Schools Technical Support Team (Τεχνική Στήριξη ΣΕΠΕΗΥ) <email address hidden>
sub 2048g/15480249 2009-05-27