STINNER Victor added the comment: Thanks to the PEP 393, this issue is already fixed in Python 3.3.
$ ./python Python 3.3.0rc1+ (default:ba2c1def3710+, Sep 3 2012, 23:20:25) [GCC 4.6.3 20120306 (Red Hat 4.6.3-2)] on linux >>> ( u'\U0001f49d' ).encode('ascii', errors='xmlcharrefreplace') b'💝' ---------- nosy: +haypo _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15866> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com