I've checked a band-aid fix for this (r56878). The band-aid works by
pre-importing the latin-1 codec (and also the utf-8 codec, just to be
sure) *before* setting sys.stdout and sys.stderr (this happens in
site.py, in installnewio()).
This is a horrible hack though, and only works because, as long
The wiki seems to be done, so sorry for the spam.
python -v crashes due to infinite recursion (well, it tried to be
infinite until it got a stack overflow :-) The problem seems to be
that Lib/encodings/latin_1.py is loaded, but it tries to be converted
to latin_1, so it tries to load the module,
