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

[Sandro Tosi]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 20:08, Jakub Wilk<ubanus at users.sf.net> wrote:
> * Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org>, 2009-08-11, 18:10:
>>
>> what about setting
>>
>> import sys
>> sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
>>
>> at the beginning of bin/reportbug ?
>
> That would be totally wrong (even though the gtk module actually seems to be
> doing something like this). Let me quote GvR[1]:

So, what are you proposing?

if the alternative is to encode/decode each string we have to print on
screen because in 2009 there are still users not using utf8 shells,
then I'm fine with this change and to deal with the fallback.

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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