[Pythonmac-SIG] How to print unicode to OS-X Terminal.app

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 15 Feb, 2008, at 0:11, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Robin Dunn wrote:
>> Just replace sys.stdout with an object with a write() method that  
>> does
>> what you want.
>
> I don't think that will do it, as "print" will have already converted
> the object to a string, and it does that with str(), which calls
> object.__str__, which used the default encoding....
>
> oh well, I'm really just whining, but this transition to unicode is
> pretty painful!

On my system print u"text" already does the right thing, even when the  
text contain non-ascii characters. This is with the system install of  
python.

 >>> import sys
 >>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
'ascii'
 >>> sys.stdout.encoding
'UTF-8'

That's because the system (OSX 10.5) has set an environment variable  
that Python knows about: LANG=en_US.UTF-8.

YMMV,

   Ronald

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