Fixed bug where the logging message was wrongly being demoted from Unicode to string (SF #1314107)

Lib/logging/__init__.py

@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ except ImportError:
 
 __author__  = "Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@red-dove.com>"
 __status__  = "beta"
-__version__ = "0.4.9.6"
-__date__    = "27 March 2005"
+__version__ = "0.4.9.7"
+__date__    = "07 October 2005"
 
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #   Miscellaneous module data
@@ -266,6 +266,8 @@ class LogRecord:
         if not hasattr(types, "UnicodeType"): #if no unicode support...
             msg = str(self.msg)
         else:
+            msg = self.msg
+            if type(msg) not in (types.UnicodeType, types.StringType):
                 try:
                     msg = str(self.msg)
                 except UnicodeError: