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

[Skip Montanaro]

    Skip> I generally use xterm instead of Terminal.app.  I think it's
    Skip> encoding is latin-1.

    Martin> Not on OS X.

I run xterms under XDarwin.  I don't think the default encoding is different
than xterms in any other X environment.  If I execute

    print u'\xed'.encode("latin-1")

in an xterm I get an accented "i".  If I execute

    print u'\xed'.encode("utf-8")

in a Terminal window I also get an accented "i".

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