[Reportbug-maint] Bug#865286: reportbug: Some special characters stopped being displayed in all of my terminals

[Sergii Sergieiev]

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.1.7
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I use i3-wm installed on Debian testing, everything was fine untill the
last update. I havily use special characters to mark my desktops and
some stuff in i3 status line, like trash-can to display the number of
files I deleted, calendar symbol for showing a current date, or a
battery indicator. So, after I updated, like 3 days ago, some of the
symbols were replaced with some other ugly not releted ones, and some of
them stayed as before. At first I thought maybe my i3-config file was
corrupted, but no! It's just I can't enter those symbols enymore in my
terminal which I was able to do previously.
My environment looks really ugly right now and hardly usable :(

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

** /home/winters/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "7.1.7"
mode novice
ui text
email "winters at ukr.net"
no-cc
header "X-Debbugs-CC: winters at ukr.net"
smtphost reportbug.debian.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                1.4.6
ii  python3            3.5.3-1
ii  python3-reportbug  7.1.7

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                               <none>
pn  debconf-utils                            <none>
pn  debsums                                  <none>
pn  dlocate                                  <none>
pn  emacs24-bin-common | emacs25-bin-common  <none>
ii  file                                     1:5.30-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                           3.22.11-1
ii  gir1.2-vte-2.91                          0.46.1-1
ii  gnupg                                    2.1.18-6
pn  postfix | exim4 | mail-transport-agent   <none>
ii  python3-gi                               3.22.0-2
pn  python3-gi-cairo                         <none>
pn  python3-gtkspellcheck                    <none>
pn  python3-urwid                            <none>
ii  xdg-utils                                1.1.1-1

Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                1.4.6
ii  file               1:5.30-1
ii  python3            3.5.3-1
ii  python3-debian     0.1.30
ii  python3-debianbts  2.6.1
ii  python3-requests   2.12.4-1

python3-reportbug suggests no packages.

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