On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:41 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-05-20 10:22, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >> I'd like to propose a new environment variable PYTHONSTDOUTENCODING. >> This is meant to solve various problems that people had with Python >> not detecting their terminal encoding correctly; it would override >> any detection that Python would use for determining the encoding of >> stdout (and stdin - but that's less relevant in 2.x). >> > > How is this relevant for 2.x ? > > In 2.x, stdin and stdout are just files without any io wrappers > around them. > > Writing Unicode to stdout will still use the default encoding > ASCII to convert it to an 8-bit string. All other 8-bit strings > will be passed to stdout as-is. You're forgetting about print; in Python 2.x, when stdout is connected to a terminal, the locale settings (typically the LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables) are taken into account when 'print' writes to sys.stdout. -- Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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