New submission from alex hartwig:
Это из IDLE:
Python 2.7.2+ (default, Oct 4 2011, 20:03:08)
[GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
Type copyright, credits or license() for more information.
import sys
import locale
sys.getdefaultencoding()
'ascii'
locale.getpreferredencoding()
'UTF-8'
s = u'Русский
Ezio Melotti added the comment:
Looks like your IDLE is set to use latin-1, but s.encode('latin1') should have
failed with an UnicodeEncodeError. Are you sure you copied the snippet
correctly?
The default source encoding refers to the .py files you open with IDLE, and
doesn't affect the
