[Python-Dev] Proposal: new environment variable PYTHONSTDOUTENCODING

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-05-20 20:23, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Writing Unicode to stdout will still use the default encoding
>> ASCII to convert it to an 8-bit string.
> 
> That's not true.

Are you sure ?

 > setenv LC_ALL de_DE.utf8
 > python2.5
Python 2.5 (r25:51908, May  9 2007, 00:53:06)
 >>> u = u'äöü'
 >>> sys.stdout.write(u)
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-2: ordinal not in range(128)
 >>> print u
äöü
 >>>

Only "print" will set the Py_PRINT_RAW flag to trigger the conversion from
Unicode to 8-bit strings using .encoding in PyFile_WriteObject().

If not set, the default encoding is used.

I'm not exactly sure why, since using .encoding would be useful
in all cases.

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