Unicode problem with exec

[Thomas Heller]

I'm using code.Interactive console but it doesn't work correctly
with non-ascii characters.  I think it boils down to this problem:

Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> print u"ä"
ä
>>> exec 'print u"ä"'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
  File "c:\python24\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 18, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\x84' in position 0: character maps to <undefined>
>>> ^Z

Why does the exec call fail, and is there a workaround?

Thanks,
Thomas