[Reportbug-maint] Bug#814454: reportbug: Crash when trying to configure non-ASCII characters for realname via CLI

[Sandro Tosi]

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Linus Luessing
<linus.luessing at c0d3.blue> wrote:
>
> During the initial configuration of reportbug I was prompted for a real name.
> Unfortunately using umlauts results in the following exception:
>
> -----
> What real name should be used for sending bug reports?
> [root]> Linus Lüssing
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2211, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1081, in main
>     return iface.user_interface()
>   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1197, in user_interface
>     offer_configuration(self.options)
>   File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 578, 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'\xfc' in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

I've uploaded to backports version 6.6.6 of reportbug which should
address this bug: please install that and report back if that's fixed.

Regards,
-- 
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