[Reportbug-maint] Bug#739507: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character

[LaNaar Dakoté]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.5.0

When I invoke `reportbug --configure` and I have to configure a real
name, reportbug prints the following output and quit right after that:

 What real name should be used for sending bug reports?
 [naar]> LaNaar Dakoté
   Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2209, in <module>
     main()
   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1079, in main
     return iface.user_interface()
   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1101, in user_interface
     offer_configuration(self.options)
   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 576, in offer_configuration
     realname = realname.decode(charset, 'replace')
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
     return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in
position 12: ordinal not in range(128)


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-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.9.7.9+deb7u1
ii  python            2.7.5-5
ii  python-reportbug  6.5.0

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                                 <none>
pn  debconf-utils                              <none>
pn  debsums                                    <none>
pn  dlocate                                    <none>
pn  emacs22-bin-common | emacs23-bin-common    <none>
ii  exim4                                      4.80-7
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.80-7
ii  file                                       5.11-2+deb7u1
ii  gnupg                                      1.4.12-7+deb7u3
pn  python-gtk2                                <none>
pn  python-gtkspell                            <none>
pn  python-urwid                               <none>
pn  python-vte                                 <none>
pn  xdg-utils                                  <none>

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.9.7.9+deb7u1
ii  python            2.7.5-5
ii  python-debian     0.1.21
ii  python-debianbts  1.11
ii  python-support    1.0.15

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

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