test.py
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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import print_function, absolute_import, unicode_literals
from unittest import TestCase


class SkipTest(TestCase):
    def test_skip(self):
        self.skipTest("Skipped with unicode char質")

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:~/code/test$ unit2

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/unit2", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main_())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/unittest2/__main__.py", line 18, in main_
    main(module=None)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/unittest2/main.py", line 90, in __init__
    self.runTests()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/unittest2/main.py", line 248, in runTests
    self.result = testRunner.run(self.test)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/unittest2/runner.py", line 172, in run
    test(result)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/unittest2/suite.py", line 87, in __call__
    return self.run(*args, **kwds)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/unittest2/suite.py", line 126, in run
    test(result)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/unittest2/suite.py", line 87, in __call__
    return self.run(*args, **kwds)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/unittest2/suite.py", line 126, in run
    test(result)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/unittest2/suite.py", line 87, in __call__
    return self.run(*args, **kwds)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/unittest2/suite.py", line 126, in run
    test(result)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/case.py", line 393, in __call__
    return self.run(*args, **kwds)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/case.py", line 351, in run
    self._addSkip(result, str(e))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 40-43: ordinal not in range(128)

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Change:
    self._addSkip(result, unicode(e))
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:~/code/test$ unit2  -v
test_skip (test.SkipTest) ... skipped u'Skipped with unicode char\u8cea'

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Ran 1 test in 0.000s

OK (skipped=1)
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:~/code/test$ python3 -m unittest2  -v
test_skip (test.SkipTest) ... skipped 'Skipped with unicode char質'

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Ran 1 test in 0.000s

OK (skipped=1)