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

Tue Apr 13 23:22:06 EDT 2004

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:
> > Why is Python not respecting my locale?
> 
> It is: however, your locale only tells Python the encoding of your
> terminal, not the encoding of an arbitrary file you may write to.

That's not the usual interpretation of locale.  It's not about
terminals, it's about everything, especially files.