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

[Michael Hudson]

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> 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.

The user can set it per-terminal, at runtime, with no notification to
the running process that it has done so!

You can't even find out the encoding in use via apple events, which is
a bit of surprise.  Filing a bug with apple might get that changed for
10.4...

Cheers,
mwh

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