Yet another unicode WTF

[Ben Finney]

Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> writes:

> $ python2.6 -c 'import sys; print sys.stdout.encoding, \
>  sys.stdout.isatty()'
> UTF-8 True
> $ python2.6 -c 'import sys; print sys.stdout.encoding, \
>  sys.stdout.isatty()' > foo ; cat foo
> None False

So shouldn't the second case also detect UTF-8? The filesystem knows
it's UTF-8, the shell knows it too. Why doesn't Python know it?

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Ben Finney