conversion of exception to string fails if non-ASCII message

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:31:41 -0000

When Python.NET catches a form the CLR code, it tries a
conversion to a string. This conversion fails if the
exception message contains non-ASCII chars(>= 128).

This is particularly bad because with non-english
versions of the .NET framework the exception messages
are localized. (In german, many exception texts contain
"äöü", causing the described error)

Result:
- The user gets an error message of the form
"SomeDotNetExceptionType: <Unprintable exception message>"
- The "testStrOfException" unit test inside
"test_exceptions.py" fails.

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conversion of exception to string fails if non-ASCII message