Fix the encoding variable that we're using in the new function

docutils-unicode-traceback.patch

@@ -2,7 +2,15 @@ Index: docutils-0.8.1/docutils/frontend.py
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 --- docutils-0.8.1.orig/docutils/frontend.py
 +++ docutils-0.8.1/docutils/frontend.py
-@@ -193,7 +193,31 @@ def make_paths_absolute(pathdict, keys,
+@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import sys
+ import warnings
+ import ConfigParser as CP
+ import codecs
++import locale
+ import optparse
+ from optparse import SUPPRESS_HELP
+ import docutils
+@@ -193,7 +194,36 @@ def make_paths_absolute(pathdict, keys,
                  value = make_one_path_absolute(base_path, value)
              pathdict[key] = value
  
@@ -23,7 +31,12 @@ Index: docutils-0.8.1/docutils/frontend.py
 +    # converting to Unicode (Python 3 does this automatically):
 +    if sys.version_info < (3,0):
 +        # TODO: make this failsafe and reversible
-+        path = unicode(path, locale_encoding)
++        # locale.getpreferredencoding is not to be preferred to getlocale or
++        # getdefaultlocale but it is preferred to hardcoding a value.  We end
++        # with latin-1 because it's one of the encodings that is valid for
++        # every byte.
++        encoding = locale_encoding or locale.getpreferredencoding() or 'latin-1'
++        path = unicode(path, encoding)
 +    return path
 +
  def make_one_path_absolute(base_path, path):