Yet another unicode WTF

[Ben Finney]

"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> writes:

> Python knows the terminal encoding (or at least can make a good
> guess), but a file may use *any* encoding you want, completely
> unrelated to your terminal settings.

It may, yes, and the programmer is free to specify any encoding.

> So when stdout is redirected, Python refuses to guess its encoding;

But Python doesn't have to guess; the terminal encoding is as specified
in either case, no?

> see the PYTHONIOENCODING environment variable.

For the standard streams, the specified terminal encoding available to
every program makes the most sense — certainly more sense than a
Python-specific variable, or the “default to ASCII” of the current
behaviour.

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Ben Finney