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[Thomi <672056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interestingly, setting LANG=C fixes this, but the unit test in question
still fails. It turns out that the unit test failure was caused by a
missing dependency, but it's odd that the missing unit test dependency
would give this error.

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UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 2217-2258: ordinal not in range(128)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/672056
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Status in testtools: New

Bug description:
When using testtools to run unit tests from wikkid wiki (launchpad.net/wikkid), I get the following error:

thomi@neil-desktop:~/code/wikkid/thomi-newfileserver$ python -m testtools.run wikkid.tests.test_suite 
Tests running...
======================================================================
FAIL: wikkid.contrib.creole_1_1.creole2html
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/runpy.py", line 122, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/runpy.py", line 34, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/testtools/run.py", line 282, in <module>
    program = TestProgram(argv=sys.argv, testRunner=runner)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/testtools/run.py", line 134, in __init__
    self.runTests()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/testtools/run.py", line 274, in runTests
    self.result = testRunner.run(self.test)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/testtools/run.py", line 44, in run
    result.stopTestRun()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/testtools/testresult/real.py", line 259, in stopTestRun
    self._show_list('FAIL', self.failures)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/testtools/testresult/real.py", line 245, in _show_list
    self.stream.write(output)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 2217-2258: ordinal not in range(128)


I'm running python 2.6.4.

In case it matters, my LANG environment variable is set to: en_NZ.UTF-8