[Reportbug-maint] Bug#539736: reportbug: --subject does not accept non-ASCII characters

[Jakub Wilk]

Package: reportbug
Version: 4.5
Severity: normal

$ reportbug reportbug -s 'żółw'
*** Welcome to reportbug.  Use ? for help at prompts. ***
Detected character set: UTF-8
[snip]
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/jwilk/bin/reportbug", line 12, in <module>
     execfile('/usr/bin/reportbug')
   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1888, in <module>
     main()
   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 905, in main
     return iface.user_interface()
   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1820, in user_interface
     message = u"Subject: %s\n%s" % (subject, message)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                           0.7.22     Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  python                        2.5.4-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-reportbug              4.5        Python modules for interacting wit

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  debconf-utils                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  debsums                       2.0.46     verification of installed package 
ii  dlocate                       1.02       fast alternative to dpkg -L and dp
ii  esmtp-run [mail-transport-age 0.6.0-1    User configurable relay-only MTA
ii  file                          5.03-1     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gnupg                         1.4.9-4    GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
pn  python-gnome2-extras          <none>     (no description available)
ii  python-gtk2                   2.14.1-3   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-urwid                  0.9.8.4-1  curses-based UI/widget library for
pn  python-vte                    <none>     (no description available)

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Jakub Wilk