enthought/pyface — pull request #31 by rkern (2012-03-28 16:30:10+00:00)
Title: Fix SplashScreenLogHandler with unicode messages

A Windows user with a non-ASCII user name reported that a problem starting up
Mayavi. This line was raising a UnicodeDecodeError because of the explicit
str() conversion. The SplashScreen.text trait is Unicode anyways, so we really
should have been doing this already.