print u"\u0432": why is this so hard? UnciodeEncodeError

["Martin v. Löwis"]

David Eppstein wrote:
> Py2.3 sure doesn't discover the encoding of my terminal automatically:
> 
> hyperbolic ~: python
> Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11) 
> [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)] on darwin

Ah, Darwin. You lose.

If anybody can tell me how to programmatically discover the encoding
of Terminal.App, I'll happily incorporate a change into a 2.3.x release.

Regards,
Martin