Hello,
I'm using Python 2.3.4 and I noticed that, when stdout is a terminal, the
'print' statement converts Unicode strings into the encoding defined by
the locales instead of the one returned by sys.getdefaultencoding().
However, I can't find any references to it. Anyone knows where it's
descrbed?
Example:
!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys, locale
print 'Python encoding:', sys.getdefaultencoding()
print 'System encoding:', locale.getpreferredencoding()
print 'Test string: ', u'Olà mundo'
If stdout is a terminal, works fine
$ python x.py
Python encoding: ascii
System encoding: UTF-8
Test string: Olà mundo
If I redirect the output to a file, raises an UnicodeEncodeError exception
$ python x.py > x.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "x.py", line 8, in ?
print 'Test string: ', u'Olà mundo'
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 2:
ordinal not in range(128)
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Ricardo
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