software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __init__(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

[Blümchen Blau]

Reproducable crash, when trying to start to add a repository in synaptic package manager.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.80.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-4.31-generic 2.6.38-rc5
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-4-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 19 15:06:46 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110202)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk -n -t 62914689
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_AT:de:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=de_AT.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk', '-n', '-t', '62914689']
SourcePackage: software-properties
Title: software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __init__(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)
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