diff -r 9d3721552b6c -r 81224afd938d mercurial/statichttprepo.py
--- a/mercurial/statichttprepo.py	Wed Dec 20 12:51:20 2023 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/statichttprepo.py	Wed Dec 20 20:13:22 2023 +0100
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
     def wlock(self, wait=True):
         raise error.LockUnavailable(
             0,
-            _(b'lock not available'),
+            pycompat.sysstr(_(b'lock not available')),
             b'lock',
             _(b'cannot lock static-http repository'),
         )
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
     def lock(self, wait=True):
         raise error.LockUnavailable(
             0,
-            _(b'lock not available'),
+            pycompat.sysstr(_(b'lock not available')),
             b'lock',
             _(b'cannot lock static-http repository'),
         )