Package: ipython Version: 0.8.4-1 Severity: normal The `python` command handles UTF-8 correctly:
>>> print u"ſwhack" ſwhack The `ipython` command does not seem to: In [1]: print u"ſwhack" Å¿whack I am guessing that `ipython` is defaulting to latin1 or some other encoding, but I cannot find a configuration option for this. I think that it should default to UTF-8, if that is in fact what `python` is doing. Note that both of them were run from the same shell. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~ $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL= -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.3-bytemark-uml-2 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages ipython depends on: ii python 2.5.2-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-pexpect 2.3-1 Python module for automating inter ii python-support 0.8.6 automated rebuilding support for P ipython recommends no packages. Versions of packages ipython suggests: pn python-matplotlib <none> (no description available) pn python-numpy <none> (no description available) pn python-profiler <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- Noah Slater, http://bytesexual.org/nslater _______________________________________________ Python-modules-team mailing list Python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/python-modules-team