[MERGE] More robust handling of encoding issues in tests.

[Daniel Watkins]

Hi Martin,

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:56:58 +0200
Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern at gmx.net> wrote:
> This modification only changes how certain test results are displayed
> to the user. There is no change to the semantics of these tests, so a
> test that used to fail before will still continue to fail. Hopefully
> if it does fail it is more likely that the test suite will continue
> with the next test and not abort due to some exception displaying the
> error.
This all looks good to me.  However, I'd feel more comfortable if it had
some tests to ensure that _safe_string is definitely returning correctly
escaped strings.

Regards,
-- 
Daniel Watkins (Odd_Bloke)