Éric Araujo added the comment:
I think this works if you set PYTTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 in your environment.
(2.6 does not get bugfixes anymore.)
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title: pydoc does not handle unicode AUTHOR field - pydoc does not handle
non-ASCII unicode AUTHOR field
versions: -Python 2.6
Éric Araujo added the comment:
One could argue that since print does respect the terminal encoding if
sys.stdin is a tty, pydoc could be as smart and do the same. I think the
problem comes from the use of a pager, which means a subprocess, which mean
that the streams are not ttys and the
R. David Murray added the comment:
There is a proposed patch in issue 1065986 waiting for review.
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nosy: +r.david.murray
resolution: - duplicate
stage: - committed/rejected
status: open - closed
superseder: - Fix pydoc crashing on unicode strings
type: crash - behavior
