closes #123892 by adding errors=replace when encoding unicode strings

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/reporters/__init__.py b/reporters/__init__.py
index 99cf2b7..fa09c1a 100644
--- a/reporters/__init__.py
+++ b/reporters/__init__.py
@@ -82,7 +82,10 @@ class BaseReporter:
             encoding = (getattr(self.out, 'encoding', None) or
                         locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] or
                         sys.getdefaultencoding())
-            return string.encode(encoding)
+            # errors=replace, we don't want to crash when attempting to show
+            # source code line that can't be encoded with the current locale
+            # settings
+            return string.encode(encoding, 'replace')
         self.encode = encode
 
     def writeln(self, string=''):