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[Nick Østergaard <1165569@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This still happens in Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, with python-software-
properties 0.92.36.

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Title:
  add-apt-repository crashes in non-UTF locale with UTF in key
  description

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

Bug description:
  When using add-apt-repository under non-UTF locale to add a PPA with
  non-ascii characters, the following crash happens:

  gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp01qdlw/secring.gpg' created
  gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp01qdlw/pubring.gpg' created
  gpg: requesting key 95BF72AD from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
  gpg: /tmp/tmp01qdlw/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
  gpg: key 95BF72AD: public key "Launchpad PPA for Micha\xc5\x82 Sawicz" imported
  gpg: Total number processed: 1
  gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
  Exception in thread Thread-1:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/threading.py", line 639, in _bootstrap_inner
      self.run()
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 141, in run
      self.add_ppa_signing_key(self.ppa_path)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 238, in add_ppa_signing_key
      tmp_export_keyring, signing_key_fingerprint, tmp_keyring_dir):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 190, in _verify_fingerprint
      got_fingerprints = self._get_fingerprints(keyring, keyring_dir)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 182, in _get_fingerprints
      output = subprocess.check_output(cmd, universal_newlines=True)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/subprocess.py", line 575, in check_output
      output, unused_err = process.communicate(timeout=timeout)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/subprocess.py", line 909, in communicate
      stdout = _eintr_retry_call(self.stdout.read)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/subprocess.py", line 476, in _eintr_retry_call
      return func(*args)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
      return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 94: ordinal not in range(128)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: software-properties-common 0.92.17
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-7.16-generic 3.8.0
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-7-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Apr  7 00:19:57 2013
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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