sosreport throws UnicodeDecodeError in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • running a sosreport that collects a file with non-ASCII character in it's name (or that is supposed to collect a command with non-ASCII character)
  • the tool raises exception in "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sos/reporting.py", line 150

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
  • sos version 3.2-*

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