Tomasz Toczyski schrieb:
> My locale is set to UTF-8. The command:
> python -c "print u'\u03A9'"
> gives me the desired result and doesn't produce any error.
>
> But when I want to redirect the output to a file I invoke:
> python -c "print u'\u03A9'" > file.txt
> I get an error:
>
> File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u03a9' in
> position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> How to cope with it?
Python tries and guesses the stdout-encoding based on the terminal
settings. So the first print works.
However, piping to a file means that it can't do so, because it doesn't
(and shouldn't) make any assumptions on the output encoding desired -
after all, it might be appending to a XML-file with e.g. latin1 encoding.
So you need to explictely encode the unicode-object with the desired
encoding:
python -c "print u'\u03A9'.encode('utf-8')" > file.txt
Diez
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