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

[Armin Rigo]

Armin Rigo added the comment:

@Serhiy: it would certainly break a program that tries to call the repr() and catches the UnicodeEncodeError to do something else, like encode the data differently.

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