Revert "(python) Change error message for unicode is passed but no encoding is"

This reverts commit bd73742552cf16592662a7ec5ba3608888081131.

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog.rst b/ChangeLog.rst
index 75e86b2..a0aae25 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.rst
+++ b/ChangeLog.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+0.1.10
+======
+:release date: NOT RELEASED YET
+
+New feature
+-----------
+* Add ``encoding`` and ``unicode_erros`` option to packer and unpacker.
+  When this option is specified, (un)packs unicode object instead of bytes.
+  This enables using msgpack as a replacement of json.
+
 0.1.9
 ======
 :release date: 2011-01-29
diff --git a/msgpack/_msgpack.pyx b/msgpack/_msgpack.pyx
index 14bc9d7..443cbd7 100644
--- a/msgpack/_msgpack.pyx
+++ b/msgpack/_msgpack.pyx
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ cdef class Packer(object):
                 ret = msgpack_pack_raw_body(&self.pk, rawval, len(o))
         elif PyUnicode_Check(o):
             if not self.encoding:
-                raise TypeError("Can't pack unicode object: No encoding is specified")
+                raise TypeError("Can't encode utf-8 no encoding is specified")
             o = PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(o, self.encoding, self.unicode_errors)
             rawval = o
             ret = msgpack_pack_raw(&self.pk, len(o))