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

[Jakub Wilk]

* Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>, 2009-08-03, 14:19:
>> I think you just terminated reportbug to early. (Sorry, my original report
>> was not precise enough.)
>
>yeah, better to have to complete, full transcript ;) it seemed it
>crashed right at the beginning
>
>> Could you try this non-interactive version?
>
>sure
Thanks for you patience. :)

>> $ yes '' | PAGER=cat reportbug reportbug -s 'żółw' -O -o /dev/null
>
>$ yes '' | PAGER=cat reportbug reportbug -s 'żółw' -O -o /dev/null
[snip]
>(I removed some info not relevant here) except for the subject a bit
>weird, it worked fine.
That's really awkward: my investigation shown that the bug is triggered 
only when gtk2 module is not present (which I intentionally disabled, as 
you may recall).

Here is complete log from my clean sid chroot:

root at pbuilder:/# apt-get install reportbug locales-all
[snip]
Setting up libssl0.9.8 (0.9.8k-3) ...
Setting up libdb4.5 (4.5.20-13) ...
Setting up libsqlite3-0 (3.6.16-1) ...
Setting up mime-support (3.46-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/see to provide /usr/bin/view (view) in auto mode.
Setting up python2.5-minimal (2.5.4-1) ...
Setting up python2.5 (2.5.4-1) ...
Setting up python-minimal (2.5.4-2) ...
Setting up python (2.5.4-2) ...
Setting up python-support (1.0.3) ...
Setting up python-reportbug (4.5) ...
Setting up reportbug (4.5) ...
Setting up locales-all (2.9-23) ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
root at pbuilder:/# su - nobody
No directory, logging in with HOME=/
nobody at pbuilder:/$ export LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.utf8
nobody at pbuilder:/$ reportbug reportbug -s `printf "\xc3\xb3"` -O --template
Warning: no reportbug configuration found.  Proceeding in novice mode.
Detected character set: UTF-8
Please change your locale if this is incorrect.

Using 'nobody <nobody at pbuilder.jwilk.net>' as your from address.
Getting status for reportbug...
Maintainer for reportbug is 'Reportbug Maintainers <reportbug-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>'.
Looking up dependencies of reportbug...

Traceback (most recent call last):
   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 0xc3 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

-- 
Jakub Wilk