Ron Garret wrote: > > > I'm using an OS X terminal to ssh to a Linux machine. > > > > In theory it should work out of the box. OS X terminal should set > > enviromental variable LANG=en_US.utf-8, then ssh should transfer this > > variable to Linux and python will know that your terminal is utf-8. > > Unfortunately AFAIK OS X terminal doesn't set that variable and most > > (all?) ssh clients don't transfer it between machines. As a workaround > > you can set that variable on linux yourself . This should work in the > > command line right away: > > > > LANG=en_US.utf-8 python -c "print unichr(0xbd)" > > > > Or put the following line in ~/.bashrc and logout/login > > > > export LANG=en_US.utf-8 > > No joy. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LANG=en_US.utf-8 python -c "print unichr(0xbd)" > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<string>", line 1, in ? > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbd' in > position 0: ordinal not in range(128) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
What version of python and what shell do you run? What the following commands print: python -V echo $SHELL $SHELL --version -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
