Adam Funk wrote: > On 2012-01-04, Peter Otten wrote: > >> Adam Funk wrote: > >>> How can I force python (preferably within my python program, rather >>> than having to set something externally) to treat stdout as UTF-8? >> >> >> $ cat force_utf8.py >> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- >> import sys >> >> if sys.stdout.encoding is None: >> import codecs >> writer = codecs.getwriter("utf-8") >> sys.stdout = writer(sys.stdout) >> >> print u"Ähnlich üblich nötig" > > That's great, thanks! > > I guess issues like this will magically go away when I eventually move > to Python 3?
Not "magically", but UTF-8 has become the default encoding... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list