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

[cjwatson]

Should be sufficient to replace 'UTF-8' with locale.getpreferredencoding() (not tested).