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

[David Eppstein]

In article <c55tkv$3s4$05$2 at news.t-online.com>,
 "Martin v. Lowis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> David Eppstein wrote:
> > Well, no.
> > 
> > Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11) 
> > [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)] on darwin
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > 
> >>>>import sys;sys.stdin.encoding
> > 
> > 'US-ASCII'
> 
> You did not follow Hye-Shik's instructions closely enough. You
> failed to set the LANG environment variable before starting Python.

A system that requires me to manually set the LANG environment variable 
is no better than a system that requires me to manually define an 
encoding once in Python.  It doesn't seem to answer your question about 
automatic determination of the Terminal's encoding.

-- 
David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science