Correcting 'utf-8' to 'unicode'.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/msgpack/_msgpack.pyx b/msgpack/_msgpack.pyx
index 7a81746..52464fb 100644
--- a/msgpack/_msgpack.pyx
+++ b/msgpack/_msgpack.pyx
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ 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 encode utf-8 no encoding is specified")
+                raise TypeError("Can't encode unicode string: no encoding is specified")
             o = PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(o, self.encoding, self.unicode_errors)
             rawval = o
             ret = msgpack_pack_raw(&self.pk, len(o))
@@ -425,3 +425,4 @@ cdef class Unpacker(object):
 
     #def _off(self):
     #    return self.buf_head
+