Diez B. Roggisch:
>
> Python tries and guesses the stdout-encoding based on the terminal
> settings. So the first print works.
>
> However, piping to a file means that it can't do so, because it doesn't
> (and shouldn't) make any assumptions on the output encoding desired -
> after all, it might be appending to a XML-file with e.g. latin1
> encoding.
>
> So you need to explictely encode the unicode-object with the desired
> encoding:
>
>
> python -c "print u'\u03A9'.encode('utf-8')" > file.txt
Thanks. It is a solutiona to my problem but:
Are there any command line option for telling python what encoding to use
for stdout?
To be honest I have a more complicated program than the example that I
have presented - there are many print commands inside and it is not very
feasible for me to put .encode('utf-8') inside every print occurence.
-tt.
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