Adam Funk wrote:
> (I'm using Python 2.7.2+ on Ubuntu.)
>
> When I'm running my program in an xterm, the print command with an
> argument containing unicode works fine (it correctly detects my UTF-8
> environment). But when I run it with a pipe or redirect to a file (|
> or >), unicode strings fail with the following (for example):
>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0107' in
> position 21: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> How can I force python (preferably within my python program, rather
> than having to set something externally) to treat stdout as UTF-8?
$ cat force_utf8.py
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys
if sys.stdout.encoding is None:
import codecs
writer = codecs.getwriter("utf-8")
sys.stdout = writer(sys.stdout)
print u"Ähnlich üblich nötig"
$ python force_utf8.py
Ähnlich üblich nötig
$ python force_utf8.py | cat
Ähnlich üblich nötig
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