I want to pass Chinese characters as command-line arguments to a
Python script. My terminal has no problem displaying these
characters, and passing them to the script, but I can't get Python
to understand them properly.
E.g. if I pass one such character to the simple script
import sys
print sys.argv[1]
print type(sys.argv[1])
the first line of the output looks fine (identical to the input),
but the second line says "<type 'str'>". If I add the line
arg = unicode(sys.argv[1])
I get the error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "kgrep.py", line 4, in <module>
arg = unicode(sys.argv[1])
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 0: ordinal
not in range(128)
What must I do to get Python to recognize command-line arguments
as utf-8 Unicode?
FWIW, my os is Darwin, my shell (zsh) runs on Terminal, and none
of my locale (LC_*) variables is set.
TIA!
kynn
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