Serge Orlov wrote: > Ron Garret wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > "Serge Orlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > $SHELL --version > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python -V > > Python 2.3.4 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $SHELL > > /bin/bash > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ $SHELL --version > > GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu) > > Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > That's recent enough. I guess the distribution you're using set LC_* > variables for no good reason. Either unset all enviromental variables > starting with LC_ and set LANG variable or overide LC_CTYPE variable: > > LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf-8 python -c "print unichr(0xbd)" > > Should be working now :)
I've pulled myself together and installed linux in vwware player. Apparently there is another way linux distributors can screw up. I chose debian 3.1 minimal network install and after answering all installation questions I found that only ascii and latin-1 english locales were installed: $ locale -a C en_US en_US.iso88591 POSIX In 2006, I would expect utf-8 english locale to be present even in minimal install. I had to edit /etc/locale.gen and run locale-gen as root. After that python started to print unicode characters. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
