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

[Michael Hudson]

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

> Skip Montanaro wrote:
> >     Martin> I wonder how much would break if Python would assume the
> >     Martin> terminal encoding is UTF-8 on Darwin. Do people use different
> >     Martin> terminal encodings?
> > I generally use xterm instead of Terminal.app.  I think it's
> > encoding is
> > latin-1.
> 
> Not on OS X. Terminal.App is a software package completely different
> from xterm. For one thing, xterm is for X11, whereas Terminal.App is
> for Window Server (or whatever the name of the Apple GUI is).

I think Skip knows this :-)

Cheers,
mwh

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