On 8/11/12 00:53:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > This error confuses me. Is that an exact copy and paste of the error, or > have you edited it or reconstructed it? Because it seems to me that if > task.subject is a unicode string, as it appears to be, calling print on > it should succeed: > > py> s = u'ABC\u2013DEF' > py> print s > ABC–DEF
That would depend on whether python thinks sys.stdout can handle UTF8. For example, on my MacOS X box: $ python2.6 -c 'print u"abc\u2013def"' abc–def $ python2.6 -c 'print u"abc\u2013def"' | cat Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) This is because python knows that my terminal is capable of handling UTF8, but it has no idea whether the program at the other end of a pipe had that ability, so it'll fall back to ASCII only if sys.stdout goes to a pipe. Apparently the OP has a terminal that doesn't handle UTF8, or one that Python doesn't know about. Hope this helps, -- HansM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
