getdefaultencoding - how to change this?

[Helmut Jarausch]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:31:09 +0000, Helmut Jarausch wrote:

> Hi,
> I've searched the net but didn't find the information I need. Using
> Python-2.7.1, I know, I can't modify defaultencoding at run time. Python
> even ignores
> export PYTHONIOENCODING=ISO8859-1
> 
> locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
> returns
> 'ISO8859-1'
> 
> still sys.stdout is using the ascii codec. How can I recompile Python
> (itself) to change this to iso8859-1 ? (My favourite editor cannot be
> told to use unicode.)
> 

Sorry for answering myself. One last trial did succeed.
My locale as root differed from my locale as non-root user.
After changing the root locale and recompiling Python, it works now.





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