New submission from Redoute <redo...@tortenboxer.de>: When running a python script from windows command line (cmd.exe) and redirecting its output, stdout.encoding is set to None and printing non-ascii chars fails. Encoding should be the same as without redirecting. Example:
[Code unictest.py] # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from sys import stdout, stderr print >> stderr, 'stdout.encoding: ', stdout.encoding print u'äöüß' [/Code] [windows command prompt] C:\Daten>testunic.py stdout.encoding: cp850 äöüß C:\Daten>testunic.py > testunic.txt stdout.encoding: None Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Daten\Cmd\testunic.py", line 5, in <module> print u'├ñ├Â├╝├ƒ' UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-3: ordin al not in range(128) [/windows command prompt] ---------- components: Windows messages: 154885 nosy: Redoute priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: stdout.encoding not set when redirecting windows command line output type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14192> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com