On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:41 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <
mal@egenix.com> 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).
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.