Hi Dima, > Hi. I just tried to send an unblock, and reportbug crashed. Session: > > dima@scrawny:~$ sudo apt install reportbug > ... > Please enter the name of the package: geda-gaf > Checking status database... > Traceback (most recent call last): … > return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd8 in position 327: > ordinal not in range(128)
The package has "أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <aelmahmo...@users.sourceforge.net>" as uploader. And that is not parsable by your non Unicode environment. > Presumably there's some non-ascii something somewhere that's tripping it > up. It is 100% reproducible, and as you can see I'm using the latest > available reportbug. Thanks. I can reproduce it with LC_ALL=C, but not with C.UTF-8. I would argue that reportbug can't do anything here, as your environment just can't display the string correctly.
