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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Scott Schwartz wrote:
>>It is: however, your locale only tells Python the encoding of your
>>terminal, not the encoding of an arbitrary file you may write to.
> 
> 
> That's not the usual interpretation of locale.  It's not about
> terminals, it's about everything, especially files.

At the application's choice, though. Python should not guess unless
it is likely that it is guessing right. For files, it is likely
guessing wrong - even for text files.

Regards,
Martin