Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[Jarek Zgoda]

Roman Suzi <rnd at onego.ru> pisze:
 
> And also, for a windows program which encoding do I specify? Windows console
> historically uses cp866 while GUI uses cp1251.

We have cp437 for Windows console as default encoding, while _really_
it's something different... You don't have "ą" character in cp437 set,
but you can do

print "Zażółć gęślą jaźń".encode('cp437')

and it will be shown correctly.

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