codecs.StreamRecoder not doing what I expected.

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 13:17:24 +0100
Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
> In a message of Sun, 13 Dec 2015 01:35:45 -0500, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain"
> writes:
> >When I try to print it to the web page it fails because the \xe9
> >character is not valid ASCII.  However, my default encoding is utf-8.
> >Other web pages on the same server display fine.
> >
> >I have the following in the Apache config by the way.
> >
> >SetEnv PYTHONIOENCODING utf8
> >
> >So, my file is utf-8, I am reading it as utf-8, my Apache server
> >output is set to utf-8.  How is ASCII sneaking in?
> 
> What is your sys.stdout.encoding ?
> 
> just import sys and print the thing.
> 
> I think you will find that it is not what you expect.
> 
> Laura
> 

>>> print(sys.stdout.encoding)
utf8

That's what I was expecting.  However when I add that to my web log
output I get this:

get_recipe() PYTHONIOENCODING:  None
get_recipe() encoding:  646

Dang!  I was sure that I fixed that.  I have this in my Apache
configuration:

SetEnv PYTHONIOENCODING utf8

I guess I have an Apache problem now, not a Python one.  The strange
thing is that this was a fix for a similar problem I asked about and it
worked.  Isn't there some way that I can just set the default encoding
to utf8 for every Python program?  Googling suggests that I can't do
that but that doesn't see right.

Since utf8 includes ASCII why wouldn't it be the default anyway?

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