Don't decode unicode strings.
This does not work with python2.3 and is probably not useful anyway with 2.4.
# should print nothing
# should fail
abort: path 'b/x' is inside repo 'b'
abort: path 'b/x' is inside repo 'b'
# should fail
abort: path 'b/x' is inside repo 'b'
# should arguably print nothing
# should fail
abort: path 'b/a' is inside repo 'b'