> it seems to me that the issue is related to the way exceptions are encoded.
>
> the suggested patch still applies and solves the issue. --[[chrysn]]
+
+>> In this patch band:
+>>
+>> - xml = _IkiWikiExtPluginXMLRPCHandler._read(in_fd).decode('utf8')
+>> + response = _IkiWikiExtPluginXMLRPCHandler._read(in_fd)
+>> + if isinstance(response, unicode):
+>> + xml = response.encode('utf8')
+>>
+>> I think you mean `response.decode`, not `response.encode`.
+>>
+>> Other than that it looks good to me. I like the use of `repr` in debug
+>> messages. --[[smcv]]