Hello everyone. I'm having a problem when outputing UTF-8 strings to a console. Let me show a simple example that explains it:
$ python -c 'import sys; print sys.stdout.encoding; print u"\xe9"' UTF-8 é It's everything ok. Now, if you're using your python script in some shell script you might have to store the output in some variable, like this: $ var=`python -c 'import sys; print sys.stdout.encoding; print u"\xe9"'` And what you get is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) So, python is not being able to detect the encoding of the output in a situation like that, in which the python script is called not directly but around ``. Why does happen? Is there a way to solve it either by python or by shell code? Thanks, Pedro Abranches
-- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
