Stupid Python

[ewx]

chymax$ python -V
Python 2.5.1
chymax$ python -c 'print u"\xA9";'
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chymax$ python -c 'print u"\xA9";' >/dev/null
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in 
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa9' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
chymax$ locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL="C/en_GB.utf-8/C/C/C/C"

Comments

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I don't know where you've got this idea from that the encoding comes from the terminal; it does not. It comes from the environment, and it does not come from an environment variable meaning “the local terminal's encoding” (as Python treats it) it comes from an environment variable meaning “the encoding to use everywhere” (i.e. implicitly “in the absence of additional file-specific configuration”).