Manlio Perillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just noticed that exception objects does not handle well > Unicode arguments.
This error is unrelated to the fact that you created an exception object. > >>> e = RuntimeError(u'àèìòù') > >>> str(e) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position Your terminal has been detected as using the 'ascii' encoding, so while that's true no attempt to output non-ASCII characters will work. You'll need to change whatever settings are on your terminal emulator so that it is using an encoding (such as 'utf-8') which can display the characters you want. -- \ "The World is not dangerous because of those who do harm but | `\ because of those who look at it without doing anything." -- | _o__) Albert Einstein | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
