[Python-Dev] Proposal: new environment variable PYTHONSTDOUTENCODING

[Thomas Wouters]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:41 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at 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).
>>
>
> How is this relevant for 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.

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