@@ -, +, @@ 
---
 pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py	
+++ a/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py	
@@ -961,8 +961,7 @@ class binarytree(object):
 				# With Python 2, the EnvironmentError message may
 				# contain bytes or unicode, so use _unicode to ensure
 				# safety with all locales (bug #532784).
-				writemsg("!!! %s\n\n" % _unicode(e,
-					_encodings["stdio"], errors="replace"))
+				writemsg("!!! %s\n\n" % _unicode(e))
 				del e
 				pkgindex = None
 			if proc is not None:
--