Thanks for the reply Sebastian - very helpful. I didn't know about
``sys.stdout.encoding`` which was part of the missing information. You
filled in a lot more.
The PDA itself is capable of displaying all sorts of weird and wonderful
characters - I wonder if it's possible to access this function
Isr Gish wrote:
You can set the default encoding in site.py with sys.setdefaultencoding(...)
function. Make sure to do it before it is deleted. For it this function is
deleted somewhere in the site module.
The encoding that I need is ``sys.stdout.encoding`` not
``sys.defaultencoding`` (as I l