[Bug 1724256] Re: apport-cli crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in show(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 5-8: ordinal not in range(128)

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  apport-cli crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in show(): 'ascii' codec
  can't encode characters in position 5-8: ordinal not in range(128)

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Possible duplicate of bug 1083555.  I got this trying to run apport
  over ssh from a Mac.  The same thing worked from a different system
  running Ubuntu.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: apport 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
  ApportLog:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashReports: 640:1000:115:18974:2017-10-17 15:42:52.743125200 +0200:2017-10-17 16:04:06.029511936 +0200:/var/crash/_usr_bin_apport-cli.1000.crash
  Date: Tue Oct 17 15:42:53 2017
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apport-cli
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-31 (504 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.6
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/apport-cli 2819
  Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.3, python3-minimal, 3.6.3-0ubuntu2
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/apport-cli', '2819']
  PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.14, python-minimal, 2.7.14-2ubuntu1
  SourcePackage: apport
  Title: apport-cli crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in show(): 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 5-8: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-05 (12 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sbuild sudo vboxusers

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