Package: reportbug
Version: 3.38
Severity: normal

trying to get help about reportbug, I only got::

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > reportbug -h    
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1755, in ?
      main()
    File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 752, in main
      (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 1280, in parse_args
      stop = self._process_args(largs, rargs, values)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 1324, in _process_args
      self._process_short_opts(rargs, values)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 1431, in _process_short_opts
      option.process(opt, value, values, self)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 712, in process
      return self.take_action(
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 733, in take_action
      parser.print_help()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 1538, in print_help
      file.write(self.format_help())
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 1527, in format_help
      result.append(self.format_option_help(formatter))
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 1510, in format_option_help
      result.append(OptionContainer.format_option_help(self, formatter))
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 994, in format_option_help
      result.append(formatter.format_option(option))
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 273, in format_option
      help_text = self.expand_default(option)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/optparse.py", line 245, in expand_default
      return option.help.replace(self.default_tag, str(default_value))
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufffd' in 
position 1: ordinal not in range(128)


It looks like the help string is in Unicode and no fallback is provided.

Guenter


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

** /home/milde/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "2.36"
mode standard
ui text
realname "G?Milde"
email "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
no-check-uid

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                           0.7.3      Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  python                        2.4.4-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central                0.5.12     register and build utility for Pyt

reportbug recommends no packages.

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