add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 880-887: ordinal not in range(128)

Tried running the following command in a terminal..

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

..resulted in:

~$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apt-add-repository", line 140, in <module>
    print(" %s" % (ppa_info["description"] or ""))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 880-887: ordinal not in range(128)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: software-properties-common 0.91
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-11.11-generic 3.5.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 24 21:56:42 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/add-apt-repository
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.2mu
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3.2 /usr/bin/add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/add-apt-repository', 'ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa']
SourcePackage: software-properties
Title: add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 880-887: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 140, in <module>
     print(" %s" % (ppa_info["description"] or ""))
 UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 880-887: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-23 (1 days ago)
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