bzr-email fails if committer has non-ascii gecos

[Glenn Morris]

Glenn Morris wrote:

> (I still wonder why it is apparently using the system gecos data for the
> From: address rather than the `bzr whoami' data.)

Oh, I think I get it now. With clients pushing changes to a central
server, and the server sending out the commit emails, the email plugin
does not have access to the user's bzr configuration on their client
machines, so the server information is all that it can use.