WTF? Printing unicode strings

[Fredrik Lundh]

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?

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