Yeah! That's the bug I encountered! So, that would explain why this seems to work fine now (I tried it out a bit on Friday on a CentOS6 system, but didn't run the test suite).

Cheers!
Ben Root

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Olivier Grisel <olivier.grisel@ensta.org> wrote:
Thanks for the clarification, I read your original report too quickly.

I wonder why the travis maintainers built Python 2.7 with a
non-standard unicode option.

Edit (after googling): this is a known issue. The image with Python
2.7.11 will be fixed:

https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5107

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Olivier
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