[Reportbug-maint] Bug#848729: fails with UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa3 in position 4341: invalid start byte

[George B.]

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.1.4
Followup-For: Bug #848729

Hello,

I am also hitting this issue trying to submit some followup information
to bug 848729.

I have tried the workaround suggested above and it did not work for me.
:-(

```
# reportbug -N 852346
Warning: no reportbug configuration found.  Proceeding in novice mode.
Running 'reportbug' as root is probably insecure! Continue [y|N|q|?]? y
Detected character set: UTF-8
Please change your locale if this is incorrect.

Using 'root <root at glossy.olympus.f5net.com>' as your from address.
Retrieving report #852346 from Debian bug tracking system...
What do you want to do now? [N|x|o|r|b|e|q|?]? x
Getting status for nvidia-driver...
Checking for newer versions at madison...
Will send report to Debian (per lsb_release).
Maintainer for nvidia-driver is 'Debian NVIDIA Maintainers <pkg-nvidia-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>'.
Looking up dependencies of nvidia-driver...
Getting status for related package nvidia-driver-libs...
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Getting status for related package nvidia-glx...
Getting status for related package libgl1-nvidia-glx...
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Looking up status of additional packages...

Please provide a subject for your response.
[Re: kdenlive: crash on startup]> 
Does this bug still exist in version 375.26-2 of this package? [y|N|q|?]? y
Gathering additional data, this may take a while...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2234, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1107, in main
    return iface.user_interface()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2058, in user_interface
    utils.exec_and_parse_bugscript(handler, bugexec)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reportbug/utils.py", line 1239, in exec_and_parse_bugscript
    for line in fp.readlines():
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 1330: invalid start byte
```


Thanks,

George


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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                1.4~beta4
ii  python3-reportbug  7.1.4
pn  python3:any        <none>

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ii  file                                       1:5.29-2
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ii  xdg-utils                                  1.1.1-1

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ii  python3-debian     0.1.30
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ii  python3-requests   2.12.4-1
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