[issue5876] __repr__ returning unicode doesn't work when called implicitly

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

How it can break backward compatibility? Currently repr() just raises UnicodeEncodeError.

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u20ac' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

With patch it always returns 8-bit string. As far as repr() usually used for debugging the second alternative looks more helpful.

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