Unable to add PPA Key

[aranw]

Hey,

Trying to add the PPA key but it seems to always fail due to the your name in the PPA Key.

gpg: requesting key E5267A6C from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key E5267A6C: public key "Launchpad PPA for Ond\xc5\x99ej Sur�" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)

[mengstr]

Running on Ubuntu I do like this to get his PPA's working:

apt-get update &&
apt-get install -y language-pack-en-base &&
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 &&
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 &&
apt-get install -y software-properties-common &&
add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6 &&
add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/mariadb-10.0 && 
apt-get update && 
apt-get -y upgrade

[aranw]

I found the fix was for me to set the language to UTF-8.

locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Edit:

As pointed out by @SmallRoomLabs some Ubuntu installs don't have local-gen installed by default.

To add it run sudo apt-get install -y language-pack-en-base then use the commands listed above.

[mengstr]

The AMI that I use on AWS doesn't have the language pack installed by default so I had to install language-pack-en-base. Just doing the locale-gen didn't cut it for me.

But even after 22 years of screwing around with Linux (0.99pl3 was the kernel on my first dist) I'm still more than just a bit confused when it comes to character- & language encodings. ;-)

[oerdnj]

Unfortunately that's something broken by Ubuntu and has to be fixed by Ubuntu. I will leave this open for others to find. Thanks for the workaround...

[oerdnj]

JFTR this is shortened version that should work (run as root):

# apt-get install -y language-pack-en-base
# LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/<repository>

[Seldaek]

@oerdnj has this been reported to ubuntu? And alternatively while I fully understand that it's not your fault, would it be an option for you to use a transliterated version of your name instead of the full unicode one? That would be a good workaround I guess.

[oerdnj]

Should I also change my official name so your copy & paste buffer doesn't get cluttered with few more characters?

No, I am definitely not going to use transliterated name because it's 2015 and I like my name as it is.

[Seldaek]

Eh I meant no offense. I just meant it would be a pragmatic way to reduce the load of duplicate support issues about this problem. I agree with you though that in this day and age Unicode usage shouldn't cause such breakage.

[oerdnj]

I have added instructions to every major PPA description how to circumvent this issue. Hope this fixes most problems.

[oerdnj]

JFTR: LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php also works.