On 2012-01-06, Peter Otten wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
>
>> On 2012-01-04, Peter Otten wrote:
>>
>>> Adam Funk wrote:
>>
>>>> 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"
>>
>> That's great, thanks!
>>
>> I guess issues like this will magically go away when I eventually move
>> to Python 3?
>
> Not "magically", but UTF-8 has become the default encoding...
Close enough!
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