How to get Python to default to UTF8

[Fredrik Lundh]

weheh wrote:

> I'm developing a cgi-bin application that must be unicode sensitive. I'm 
> striving for a UTF8 implementation. I'm running python 2.3 on a development
> machine (windows xp) and a server (windows xp server). Both environments are 
> running Apache 2.2 with the same configuration file.
> 
> The problem is this. On my development machine I get the following unicode 
> error:
> 
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 4-6: invalid 
> data
> args = ('utf8', 'adem\xe3\xa1s', 4, 7, 'invalid data')
> encoding = 'utf8'
> end = 7
> object = 'adem\xe3\xa1s'
> reason = 'invalid data'
> start = 4

Could be that sys.stdin.encoding differs between the setups.

*Where* do you get this exception?  In the database layer?  When the 
script is trying to read things from a file?  When it's trying to output 
things?  Somewhere else?

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