On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:31:09 +0000, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > I've searched the net but didn't find the information I need. Using > Python-2.7.1, I know, I can't modify defaultencoding at run time. Python > even ignores > export PYTHONIOENCODING=ISO8859-1 > > locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] > returns > 'ISO8859-1' > > still sys.stdout is using the ascii codec. How can I recompile Python > (itself) to change this to iso8859-1 ? (My favourite editor cannot be > told to use unicode.) >
Sorry for answering myself. One last trial did succeed. My locale as root differed from my locale as non-root user. After changing the root locale and recompiling Python, it works now. -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list