[Reportbug-maint] Bug#761367: reportbug can not handle real names with umlauts

[Joerg Frings-Fuerst]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.5.1
Severity: important


Hallo,

by first run I get the following error message:

####
What real name should be used for sending bug reports?
[Jörg Frings-Fürst]> 
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 1195, 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'\xf6' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
####


CU
Jörg



-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/jff/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "6.5.1"
mode expert
ui text
realname "Joerg Frings-Fuerst"
email "debian at jff-webhosting.net"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               1.0.7
ii  python            2.7.8-1
ii  python-reportbug  6.5.1
pn  python:any        <none>

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  file                                     1:5.19-2
ii  gnupg                                    1.4.18-4
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]           2.11.1-1
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               1.0.7
ii  python-debian     0.1.22
ii  python-debianbts  1.12
pn  python:any        <none>

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information