WTF? Printing unicode strings

[John Salerno]

Fredrik Lundh 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>
> 

AFAIK, I'm all ASCII (at least, I never made explicit changes to the 
default Python install), so how am I able to print out the character?