Refs #5046 -- Tested the 'unicode hint' in the technical 500 debug view.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/view_tests/tests/test_debug.py b/tests/view_tests/tests/test_debug.py
index a89507269a..aa0a025eed 100644
--- a/tests/view_tests/tests/test_debug.py
+++ b/tests/view_tests/tests/test_debug.py
@@ -446,6 +446,18 @@ class ExceptionReporterTests(SimpleTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(len(html) // 1024 // 128, 0)  # still fit in 128Kb
         self.assertIn('<trimmed %d bytes string>' % (large + repr_of_str_adds,), html)
 
+    def test_encoding_error(self):
+        """A UnicodeError displays a portion of the problematic string."""
+        try:
+            'abcdefghijklmnὀpqrstuwxyz'.encode('ascii')
+        except Exception:
+            exc_type, exc_value, tb = sys.exc_info()
+        reporter = ExceptionReporter(None, exc_type, exc_value, tb)
+        html = reporter.get_traceback_html()
+        self.assertIn('<h2>Unicode error hint</h2>', html)
+        self.assertIn('The string that could not be encoded/decoded was: ', html)
+        self.assertIn('<strong>jklmnὀpqrst</strong>', html)
+
     def test_unfrozen_importlib(self):
         """
         importlib is not a frozen app, but its loader thinks it's frozen which