On 15 Okt, 17:59, Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Boddie wrote: > > What does sys.stdout.encoding say? In Python 2.x, at least, that > > It says ansi_x3.4-1968
That's ASCII, yes. > Where can I change this? What's your locale? I can provoke the same setting if I run a Python program like this: LC_ALL=en_US.ascii python xxx.py Are you running some kind of GNU/Linux distribution or something else? If the former, have you installed various language/locale packages? If you're not sure, which language or country did you select when installing or configuring your system? This may seem like an odd line of questioning, but UNIX-like systems have a history of treating everything as bytes, which works acceptably until you have to take a stand on what those bytes mean. Another important question: what does Python 2.x do with the following program...? import sys print sys.stdout.encoding print u"\xe6\xf8\xe5" You should get three Scandinavian characters if the encoding and locales match. Otherwise, you'll either get a different output (indicating a mismatch) or an error (indicating that the environment cannot handle the characters output by the program). Sometimes you can persuade a terminal to use a different character set, and this might help, too. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
