Can't send sync request with non-ascii in changelog -- UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 325-327: ordinal not in range(128)

Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools

Hi

% requestsync cdebconf lucid
[...]
  * Japanese (ja.po) by Kenshi Muto
  * Korean (ko.po) by Changwoo Ryu
  * Lithuanian (lt.po) by Kęstutis Biliūnas
  * Marathi (mr.po) by Sampada
  * Bokmål, Norwegian (nb.po) by Hans Fredrik Nordhaug
  * Dutch (nl.po) by Frans Pop
  * Polish (pl.po) by Bartosz Fenski
  * Romanian (ro.po) by Eddy Petrișor
  * Slovak (sk.po) by Ivan Masár
  * Slovenian (sl.po) by Vanja Cvelbar
  * Swedish (sv.po) by Daniel Nylander
  * Thai (th.po) by Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
  * Turkish (tr.po) by Mert Dirik
  * Vietnamese (vi.po) by Clytie Siddall

 -- Frans Pop <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:06 +0100

Do you want to edit the report [y/N]?

Vous avez besoin d'une phrase de passe pour déverrouiller la
clé secrète pour l'utilisateur: « Loïc Minier (lool) <email address hidden> »
clé de 1024 bits DSA, ID 2B0920C0, créée le 2003-02-03

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/requestsync", line 227, in <module>
    mailBug(srcpkg, subscribe, status, title, report, options.keyid)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/ubuntutools/requestsync/mail.py", line 183, in mailBug
    signed_report = gpg.communicate(mailbody)[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 691, in communicate
    return self._communicate(input)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1199, in _communicate
    bytes_written = os.write(self.stdin.fileno(), chunk)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 325-327: ordinal not in range(128)
gpg: [stdout]: write error: Relais brisé (pipe)
gpg: [stdout]: write error: Relais brisé (pipe)
gpg: iobuf_flush failed on close: erreur d'écriture

So it seems non-ascii chars in the changelog are a problem? I'm in LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 locale.

Thanks

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 15 21:46:53 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: ubuntu-dev-tools 0.92
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-13.18-generic
SourcePackage: ubuntu-dev-tools
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-13-generic x86_64