[Reportbug-maint] Bug#877650: reportbug: crashes when maintainer's name contains incompatible character

[Nis Martensen]

control: tags -1 +patch

> Reportbug is not designed to cope with arbitrary encodings of
> configuration files, but relies on the user to use consistent encoding
> in files and environment.

We can and should still prevent reportbug from simply crashing in such
cases.  So here is a patch.  It applies on top of the patch that I sent
to #695887.

Besides #877650, it should also fix #868022 and #883577.
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