exceptions and unicode

[Stuart McGraw]

On 06/16/2010 03:53 PM, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
>> So how do I get what I want?
> 
> Submit a patch. You would have to explain why this is a bug fix and not 
> a new feature, as new features are not allowed anymore for 2.x.

Thanks.  Actually I have no idea if this is a bug or a feature 
(despite reading bug tracker issues 2517 and 6108, most of which
I did not understand) so I'm not in a position to argue either.  
What I think I'll do is note in my documentation that the unreadable
error messages are from Python and are only temporary for a couple 
years until the app can move to Python 3.