[ZCM] [ZC] 1735/ 1 Request "UnicodeError masks other startup errors"

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Issue #1735 Update (Request) "UnicodeError masks other startup errors"
 Status Pending, Zope/bug medium
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= Request - Entry #1 by gagenellina on Mar 23, 2005 5:49 pm

In (Zope)\lib\python\ZConfig\loader.py, method  schemaComponentSource, there is an import:

        try:
            __import__(package)
        except ImportError, e:
            raise ZConfig.SchemaError("could not load package %s: %s"
                                      % (package, str(e)))

str(e) fails if the message (possibly coming from the OS) contains non-ascii characters, giving error:
 UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128)

and masking the original error (can't load package xxx).
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