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If you want to use some other encoding, why not use a 
stream created using codecs.open(), and if necessary use a 
Formatter which is Unicode-aware to convert from msg + args 
to the formatted message? Then the exception handler should 
never be invoked.

Or, do you mean, for the exception handler? I think UTF-8 is 
OK as the default, since it is the most commonly used. I may 
consider making this configurable for a future release, if there 
is enough demand; for now you can patch it yourself.

I'll close this bug report now, I assume that's OK with you?