[Reportbug-maint] Bug#690882: reportbug: Fails to configure the user name for the FROM address if the user contains accents

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.4.3
Severity: normal

$ reportbug
Welcome to reportbug! Since it looks like this is the first time you have used reportbug, we are configuring its behavior. These settings will be saved to the file
"/home/lisandro/.reportbugrc", which you will be free to edit further.
Please choose the default operating mode for reportbug.

1 novice    Offer simple prompts, bypassing technical questions.

2 standard  Offer more extensive prompts, including asking about things that a moderately sophisticated user would be expected to know about Debian.

3 advanced  Like standard, but assumes you know a bit more about Debian, including "incoming".

4 expert    Bypass most handholding measures and preliminary triage routines. This mode should not be used by people unfamiliar with Debian's policies and operating
            procedures.

Select mode: [novice] 3
Will reportbug often have direct Internet access? (You should answer yes to this question unless you know what you are doing and plan to check whether duplicate
reports have been filed via some other channel.) [Y|n|q|?]? 
What real name should be used for sending bug reports?
[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]> 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2206, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1080, in main
    return iface.user_interface()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1196, 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'\xe1' in position 13: ordinal not in range(128) 

Kinds regards, Lisandro.

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
DEBEMAIL="lisandro at debian.org"
DEBFULLNAME="Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/lisandro/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "4.8"
mode advanced
ui text
realname "Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer"
email "lisandro at debian.org"
http_proxy "http://proxy.uns.edu.ar:1280/"
no-cc
header "X-Debbugs-CC: lisandro at debian.org"
smtphost reportbug.debian.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.9.7.6
ii  python            2.7.3-2
ii  python-reportbug  6.4.3

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                                     5.11-2
ii  gnupg                                    1.4.12-6
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]           2.9.3-2.1
ii  python-gtk2                              2.24.0-3
ii  python-gtkspell                          2.25.3-12
ii  python-urwid                             1.0.2-1
pn  python-vte                               <none>
ii  xdg-utils                                1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6

Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.9.7.6
ii  python            2.7.3-2
ii  python-debian     0.1.21+nmu2
ii  python-debianbts  1.11
ii  python-support    1.0.15

python-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information