Bug#982245: reportbug crashes during initial configuration
control: forcemerge 969209 982245
On 07.02.2021 17.14, Mikael Petersson wrote:
>
> Reportbug fails during the initial configuration when I use the default
> Y answer (I press Enter) for direct Internet access. Console output
> during execution:
> [...]
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe4' in
> position 23: ordinal not in range(128)
Thanks Mikael for the report. Unfortunately reportbug does not support
non-ascii characters in email addresses yet. I'm merging this report
with the existing bug. There is no problem with such characters in the
name, only in the email address.
Even if you did not type such a non-ascii address into reportbug, it may
have picked it up from any of the REPORTBUGEMAIL, DEBEMAIL, or EMAIL
environment variables, leading to the crash. Were any of these variables
defined on your system when you invoked reportbug?
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