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Author	christoph
Recipients	christoph
Date	2008-03-30.23:13:51
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Message-id	<1206918832.8.0.542354120577.issue2517@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Python seems to have problems when an exception is thrown that contains non-ASCII text as a message and is converted to a string. >>> try: ... raise Exception(u'Error when printing ü') ... except Exception, e: ... print e ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 4, in ? UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 20: ordinal not in range(128) See http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uyhc/de/content/python-and-exceptions-containing-unicode-messages

Python seems to have problems when an exception is thrown that 
contains non-ASCII text as a message and is converted to a string.

>>> try:
...     raise Exception(u'Error when printing ü')
... except Exception, e:
...     print e
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 4, in ?
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in 
position 20:
ordinal not in range(128)

See 
http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uyhc/de/content/python-and-exceptions-containing-unicode-messages

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-03-30 23:13:53	christoph	set	spambayes_score: 0.0061651 -> 0.006165103 recipients: + christoph
2008-03-30 23:13:52	christoph	set	spambayes_score: 0.0061651 -> 0.0061651 messageid: <1206918832.8.0.542354120577.issue2517@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-03-30 23:13:51	christoph	link	issue2517 messages
2008-03-30 23:13:51	christoph	create