Refactor text reporting to use the same code paths as other reports

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/coverage/cmdline.py b/coverage/cmdline.py
index a6a72c32..c3d011d9 100644
--- a/coverage/cmdline.py
+++ b/coverage/cmdline.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from coverage.collector import CTracer
 from coverage.data import line_counts
 from coverage.debug import info_formatter, info_header
 from coverage.execfile import PyRunner
-from coverage.misc import BaseCoverageException, ExceptionDuringRun, NoSource
+from coverage.misc import BaseCoverageException, ExceptionDuringRun, NoSource, output_encoding
 from coverage.results import should_fail_under
 
 
@@ -788,7 +788,10 @@ def main(argv=None):
         status = ERR
     except BaseCoverageException as err:
         # A controlled error inside coverage.py: print the message to the user.
-        print(err)
+        msg = err.args[0]
+        if env.PY2:
+            msg = msg.encode(output_encoding())
+        print(msg)
         status = ERR
     except SystemExit as err:
         # The user called `sys.exit()`.  Exit with their argument, if any.