Exceptions and unicode messages

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Mar 21, 6:03 am, Tuomas <tuomas.vesteri... at pp.inet.fi> wrote:
> This works:
>  >>> raise StandardError(u'Wrong type')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> StandardError: Wrong type
>
> but don't in Finnish:
>  >>> raise StandardError(u'Väärä tyyppi')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> StandardError>>>
>  >>>
>
> Any solution in Python?
>
> TV

You may even need to change you computer's default character set to
make this work. This guy did it for one of his programs:
http://aroberge.blogspot.com/2007/01/unicode-headaches-and-solution.html

Mike