Cloud-config can not add PPAs with international text in their description

[Jason Dusek]

Try:

#cloud-config
locale: en_US.UTF-8
apt_sources:
- source: 'ppa:ferramroberto/java'

This fails silently. Inserting debugging, we find the shell out to add-apt-repository fails with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 82, in <module>
    print " %s" % (ppa_info["description"] or "")
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 99: ordinal not in range(128)

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

Jason,
 I just ran this on a precise (alpha-2) instance, and it seems to have gone fine:

$ ec2metadata --user-data
#cloud-config
locale: en_US.UTF-8
apt_sources:
 - source: 'ppa:ferramroberto/java'

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ferramroberto-java-precise.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ferramroberto/java/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ferramroberto/java/ubuntu precise main

That ppa does not have precise packages at the moment.

Has the ppa maybe been modified to work around this ?
What release/ami did you use ?

[Jason Dusek (solidsnack)]

I was using ami-bbf539d2. Tried ami-bf62a9d6 just now and the matter is resolved.

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