[issue6832] Outputting unicode crushes when printing to file on Linux

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

Using the terminal encoding for sys.stdout does not work in the general
case, as a (background) process may not *have* a controlling terminal
(such as a CGI script, a cron job, or a Windows service). That Python
recognizes the terminal encoding is primarily a convenience feature for
the interactive mode.

Exposing sys.setdefaultencoding is not implementable in a reasonable way.

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