Message5550

jth@l228:~$ cat TestObj.java 
public class TestObj {
    public String toString() {
        return "Circle is 360\u00B0";
    }
}
jth@l228:~$ javac TestObj.java

jth@l228:~$ jython22 -c "import TestObj as T; print unicode(T())"
Circle is 360°
jth@l228:~$ jython25 -c "import TestObj as T; print unicode(T())"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)

I can get unicode working by first calling toString() of the object:

jth@l228:~$ jython25 -c "import TestObj as T; print unicode(T().toString())"
Circle is 360°

Should unicode() call toString() automatically also with 2.5?