Python strings outside the 128 range

[Fredrik Lundh]

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> Anyway, it seems that anything non-ASCII is a bit problematic and needs
> "manual" handling of the runtime environment encoding. Seems a bit odd,
> given the worldwide distribution of Python... I would have thought that
> such a rather basic task like printing an accented character on a console
> had been solved in a standard way, rather than relying on individual
> (wheel-reinventing) custom coding. Isn't that something that pretty much
> everybody (outside the USA, at least) needs?

umm.  what are we talking about here, really ?

$ python
>>> import sys
>>> sys.platform
'linux2'
>>> sys.stdout.encoding
'UTF-8'
>>> print unichr(233)
é

> python
>>> import sys
>>> sys.platform
'win32'
>>> sys.stdout.encoding
'cp850'
>>> print unichr(233)
é

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