print() and unicode strings (python 3.1)

[Stefan Behnel]

7stud wrote:
> python 3.1 won't let me
> explicitly encode my unicode string

Sure it does. But encoding a non-ASCII string to ASCII will necessarily fail.


> and python 3.1 implicitly does
> the encoding with the wrong codec.

That's not a Python problem, though. Your terminal is configured for
US-ASCII, so you can't output anything but US-ASCII characters.

Change your terminal setup to e.g. UTF-8 and see how things start working.

Stefan