mercurial/hgweb/server.py

--- a/mercurial/hgweb/server.py	Sun Jan 27 17:48:15 2019 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/hgweb/server.py	Sun Jan 27 18:34:17 2019 -0500
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
         self.writelines(str.split('\n'))
     def writelines(self, seq):
         for msg in seq:
-            self.handler.log_error("HG error:  %s", msg)
+            self.handler.log_error(r"HG error:  %s", encoding.strfromlocal(msg))
 
 class _httprequesthandler(httpservermod.basehttprequesthandler):