[issue1065986] Fix pydoc crashing on unicode strings

[David Barnett]

David Barnett added the comment:

I guess it must be more complicated than it looks, because I thought checking for unicode strings and doing .encode('utf-8') would help at least some cases without making anything worse.

Anyways, if it's too hard or not worth fixing "correctly", couldn't we at least do something to prevent a crash? Maybe strip out / replace special characters and try again?

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