Your own computer may handle punctuation or control characters
in a name, but most others do not. If you ever expect to
connect your computer to a heterogeneous network, you can count
on a variety of interpretations of non-alphanumeric characters
in names. Network conventions on this are surprisingly nonstandard.
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Putting extended ascii characters is really not a Good Idea™, many applications will not expect this when they parse your hostname.
See RFC1178 "Choosing a Name for Your Computer" http:// tools.ietf. org/html/ rfc1178
Don't use non-alphanumeric characters in a name.
Your own computer may handle punctuation or control characters
nonstandard.
in a name, but most others do not. If you ever expect to
connect your computer to a heterogeneous network, you can count
on a variety of interpretations of non-alphanumeric characters
in names. Network conventions on this are surprisingly
and http:// tools.ietf. org/html/ rfc3696# section- 2 for a more in depth reasoning.
If you set your hostname back to plain 'hostname' (or any other alpha-numeric name) does the issue resolve itself?