Yet another unicode WTF

[Ron Garret]

In article <h09ten$5qg$1 at lust.ihug.co.nz>,
 Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:

> In message <rNOSPAMon-E7E08B.18181804062009 at news.gha.chartermi.net>, Ron 
> Garret wrote:
> 
> > Python 2.6.2 on OS X 10.5.7:
> 
> Same result, Python 2.6.1-3 on Debian Unstable. My $LANG is en_NZ.UTF-8.
> 
> > ... I always thought one of the fundamental
> > invariants of unix processes was that there's no way for a process to
> > know what's on the other end of its stdout.
> 
> Well, there have long been functions like isatty(3). That's probably what's 
> involved here.

Oh.  Right.  Duh.

I am having an unbelievably bad day involving lawyers.  (And not 
language lawyers, real ones.)

Found the answer here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415968

rg