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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

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.

Regards,
Martin