Trying to understand this moji-bake

[Peter Pearson]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:08:56 +1100, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano
><steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> But using Python 2.7, I get a really bad case of moji-bake:
>>
>> [steve at ando ~]$ python2.7 -c "print u'ñøλπйж'"
>> ñøλÏйж
>
> What's 2.7's default source code encoding? I thought it was ascii, but
> maybe it's assuming (in the absence of a magic cookie) that it's
> Latin-1.
>
> ChrisA

I seem to be getting the same behavior as Steven:

$ python2.7 -c "print u'ñøλπйж'"
ñøλπйж
$ python2.7 -c "import sys; print(sys.stdout.encoding)"
UTF-8
$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
$ python2.7 -c "import sys; print(sys.stdin.encoding)"
UTF-8

Also, my GNOME Terminal 3.4.1.1 character encoding is "Unicode (UTF-8)".

HTH

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