Message5601

Jython behaves differently that Python does in this respect:

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\aek>\Programme\Python2.6\python.exe
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> try:
...     raise Exception(u'Flie\xdftext')
... except Exception, e:
...     print e
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 4, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xdf' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> try:
...     raise Exception(u'Flie\xdftext')
... except Exception, e:
...     print unicode(e)
...
Fließtext
>>>
>>> ^Z


C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\aek>\Programme\jython2.5.1\jython.bat
Jython 2.5.1 (Release_2_5_1:6813, Sep 26 2009, 13:47:54)
[Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (Sun Microsystems Inc.)] on java1.6.0_15
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> try:
...     raise Exception(u'Flie\xdftext')
... except Exception, e:
...     print e
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 4, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xdf' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> try:
...     raise Exception(u'Flie\xdftext')
... except Exception, e:
...     print unicode(e)
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 4, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xdf' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>