bzr-email fails if committer has non-ascii gecos

[Richard Wilbur]

I've got the following locale settings:
rwilbur at ordinate:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=

The locales package has a rather benign-sounding description:

common files for locale support

This package provides support for localized environments (locales).
It installs character and transliteration maps, provides the POSIX
locale definition and provides common scripts for language pack
handling.

The actual locale definitions are not part of this package, these are
shipped in the language packs and are installed and removed
automatically.


locale -a #prints a list of the available locales