I guess the culprit is this snippet from optparse.py:
# used by test suite
def _get_encoding(self, file):
encoding = getattr(file, "encoding", None)
if not encoding:
encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding()
return encoding
def print_help(self, file=None):
"""print_help(file : file = stdout)
Print an extended help message, listing all options and any
help text provided with them, to 'file' (default stdout).
"""
if file is None:
file = sys.stdout
encoding = self._get_encoding(file)
file.write(self.format_help().encode(encoding, "replace"))
So this means: when the encoding of sys.stdout is US-ASCII, Optparse
sets the encoding to of the help text to ASCII, too. But that's
nonsense because the Encoding is declared in the Po (localisation)
file.
How can I set the encoding of sys.stdout to another encoding? Of
course this would be a terrible hack if the encoding of the
localisation changes or different translators use different
encodings...
Thorsten
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