It looks like PyGtk used to quietly change sys.getdefaultencoding() to 'utf-8' behind my back, which hid this bug for so long!
PyGI, sensibly enough, leaves sys.getdefaultencoding() with the default value of 'ascii'.
It looks like PyGtk used to quietly change sys.getdefaulte ncoding( ) to 'utf-8' behind my back, which hid this bug for so long!
PyGI, sensibly enough, leaves sys.getdefaulte ncoding( ) with the default value of 'ascii'.