Skip Montanaro wrote: > I finally got sort of smart, and started up a pydoc server. Looking at > the sqlite3 docs through my browser, I see right off the bat, I see > > #-*- coding: ISO-8859-1 -*- > # pysqlite2/__init__.py: the pysqlite2 package. > # > # Copyright (C) 2005 Gerhard Häring <g...@ghaering.de> > > so my challenge is how to tell Python my terminal's encoding? It's > clearly assuming ASCII. Mine is actually normally set to UTF-8, but I > can select from a number of different encodings in the Preferences.
Try setting the environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list