[Reportbug-maint] Bug#507828: reportbug: On filing an ITP : exits with error when realname contains non-ascii characters

[Frédéric CORNU]

Package: reportbug
Version: 3.31
Severity: important

My realname contains serveral 'é' characters.
When attempting to file an ITP by using reportbug against wnpp, reportbugs exits whith following error trace just after 's' is beeing hit to skip the review of already filed bugs.

reportbug info :

mode: novice
ui: text

== trace begin ===
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1747, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 779, in main
    return iface.user_interface()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1679, in user_interface
    fh.write(message.encode(charset, 'replace'))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 51: ordinal not in range(128)
== trace end ====

`locale` output on this system : 

LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=fr
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8

thanx

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="vim"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2dedibox-r8-1-c7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  python                        2.4.4-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central                0.5.12     register and build utility for Pyt

Versions of packages reportbug recommends:
pn  python-cjkcodecs | python-ico <none>     (no description available)

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