explicitly encode for unicode in a bzauth exception

README.md

@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ The repository is located at https://hg.mozilla.org/hgcustom/version-control-too
   - auth.py is copied from pylib/mozhg/mozhg/
   - bz.py and bzauth.py are copied from hgext/bzexport/
   - bzexport.py is a few pieces of code copied from hgext/bzexport/__init__.py
+
+In addition, a patch to bzauth.py for bug 1336147 was manually applied.

bzauth.py

@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ class bzAuth:
         j = res.json()
         if 'error' in j:
             raise Exception('REST error on %s to %s: %s' % (
-                method, url, j['message']))
+                method, url, unicode(j['message']).encode("utf-8")))
 
         return j