WTF? Printing unicode strings

[Laurent Pointal]

Ron Garret a écrit :
> In article <mailman.5904.1147987926.27775.python-list at python.org>,
>  Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ron Garret wrote:
>>
>>>>>> u'\xbd'
>>> u'\xbd'
>>>>>> print _
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbd' in 
>>> position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>> so stdout on your machine is ascii, and you don't understand why you
>> cannot print a non-ascii unicode character to it?  wtf?
>>
>> </F>
> 
> I forgot to mention:
> 
>>>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
> 'utf-8'
>>>> print u'\xbd'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbd' in 
> position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

This is default encoding for evaluation of expressions in u"..."
strings, this has nothing to do with printing.

For the output encoding, see sys.stdout.encoding.

>>> import sys
>>> sys.stdout.encoding
'cp850'
>>>

A+

Laurent.