From 5aff1c9188d99ed670a4bc67ee7fd83ba0bcf82d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wmayer <wmayer@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 15:44:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] handle eventual system error messages

---
 src/Gui/Application.cpp | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Gui/Application.cpp b/src/Gui/Application.cpp
index 73dbad52f0..5c2451b86a 100644
--- a/src/Gui/Application.cpp
+++ b/src/Gui/Application.cpp
@@ -1180,7 +1180,7 @@ bool Application::activateWorkbench(const char* name)
     }
     catch (Py::Exception&) {
         Base::PyException e; // extract the Python error text
-        QString msg = QString::fromLatin1(e.what());
+        QString msg = QString::fromUtf8(e.what());
         QRegExp rx;
         // ignore '<type 'exceptions.ImportError'>' prefixes
         rx.setPattern(QLatin1String("^\\s*<type 'exceptions.ImportError'>:\\s*"));
@@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ bool Application::activateWorkbench(const char* name)
             pos = rx.indexIn(msg);
         }
 
-        Base::Console().Error("%s\n", (const char*)msg.toLatin1());
+        Base::Console().Error("%s\n", (const char*)msg.toUtf8());
         if (!d->startingUp)
             Base::Console().Error("%s\n", e.getStackTrace().c_str());
         else