this was fixed in 
software-properties (0.81.6) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * softwareproperties/ppa.py:
    - show PPA description and confirm before adding
      (security-o-catch-all spec)

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py: Fix encoding error,
    thanks to sokolov-m-v for the patch! (LP: #815480)
 -- Martin Pitt <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:25:51 +0200

and there is no recent duplicate. closing as 'fix released'

** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  software-properties-gtk crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in
  init_distro(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 3:
  ordinal not in range(128)

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