Fix decoding issue while formatting SyntaxErrors during collection

This happens only in Python 2, as in Python 3 we receive
the "badline" in the exception is already properly encoded

Fix #578

testing/code/test_code.py

@@ -93,6 +93,17 @@ def test_unicode_handling():
     if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
         unicode(excinfo)
 
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.version_info[0] >= 3, reason='python 2 only issue')
+def test_unicode_handling_syntax_error():
+    value = py.builtin._totext('\xc4\x85\xc4\x87\n', 'utf-8').encode('utf8')
+    def f():
+        raise SyntaxError('invalid syntax', (None, 1, 3, value))
+    excinfo = pytest.raises(Exception, f)
+    str(excinfo)
+    if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
+        unicode(excinfo)
+
 def test_code_getargs():
     def f1(x):
         pass

testing/python/collect.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import sys
 from textwrap import dedent
 
@@ -1181,3 +1182,19 @@ def test_class_injection_does_not_break_collection(testdir):
     result = testdir.runpytest()
     assert "RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration" not in result.stdout.str()
     result.stdout.fnmatch_lines(['*1 passed*'])
+
+
+def test_syntax_error_with_non_ascii_chars(testdir):
+    """Fix decoding issue while formatting SyntaxErrors during collection (#578)
+    """
+    testdir.makepyfile(u"""
+    # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
+
+    ☃
+    """)
+    result = testdir.runpytest()
+    result.stdout.fnmatch_lines([
+        '*ERROR collecting*',
+        '*SyntaxError*',
+        '*1 error in*',
+    ])