forced utf8 encoding on all stderr printing

3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/askbot/mail/lamson_handlers.py b/askbot/mail/lamson_handlers.py
index 8bfa86f7..65e5fde0 100644
--- a/askbot/mail/lamson_handlers.py
+++ b/askbot/mail/lamson_handlers.py
@@ -160,9 +160,9 @@ def process_reply(func):
              received the notification.")
         except Exception, e:
             import sys
-            sys.stderr.write(str(e))
+            sys.stderr.write(unicode(e).encode('utf-8'))
             import traceback
-            sys.stderr.write(traceback.format_exc())
+            sys.stderr.write(unicode(traceback.format_exc()).encode('utf-8'))
 
         if error is not None:
             template = get_template('email/reply_by_email_error.html')
diff --git a/askbot/startup_procedures.py b/askbot/startup_procedures.py
index 76893eff..d91464f4 100644
--- a/askbot/startup_procedures.py
+++ b/askbot/startup_procedures.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class AskbotConfigError(ImproperlyConfigured):
 
 def askbot_warning(line):
     """prints a warning with the nice header, but does not quit"""
-    print >> sys.stderr, line
+    print >> sys.stderr, unicode(line).encode('utf-8')
 
 def print_errors(error_messages, header = None, footer = None):
     """if there is one or more error messages,
diff --git a/askbot/tasks.py b/askbot/tasks.py
index 8d98be2c..fba4a556 100644
--- a/askbot/tasks.py
+++ b/askbot/tasks.py
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ def record_post_update_celery_task(
         # HACK: exceptions from Celery job don't propagate upwards
         # to the Django test runner
         # so at least let's print tracebacks
-        print >>sys.stderr, traceback.format_exc()
+        print >>sys.stderr, unicode(traceback.format_exc()).encode('utf-8')
         raise
 
 @task(ignore_result = True)