Ron Garret wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Ron Garret wrote: >> >>>I forgot to mention: >>> >>> >>>>>>sys.getdefaultencoding() >>> >>>'utf-8' >> >>A) You shouldn't be able to do that. > > What can I say? I can.
See B). >>B) Don't do that. > > OK. What should I do instead? See below. >>C) It's not relevant to the encoding of stdout which determines how unicode >>strings get converted to bytes when printing them: >> >>>>>import sys >>>>>sys.stdout.encoding >> >>'UTF-8' >> >>>>>sys.getdefaultencoding() >> >>'ascii' >> >>>>>print u'\xbd' >> >>1⁄2 > > OK, so how am I supposed to change the encoding of sys.stdout? It comes > up as US-ASCII on my system. Simply setting it doesn't work: You will have to use a terminal that accepts UTF-8. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
