If we have to format (aka interpolatation) we need to be sure this have to be
done in unicode and not in ascii. This avoid unicode error with ascii string
encoded in utf-8.

Example of failure between a string and an object

b = Exception(u"é")
Exception("error: %s" % b)
 => Exception("error: %s" % str(b)
 => UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)